Longevity Quote by Paul Rodgers

The record business has always mystified me. Sometimes there are reasons why things sell or don't sell that can't be understood by mere mortals.

— Paul Shaffer

When I was a youngster, I wrote all this music - it just came out of me - and I think record executives were…

— Fantastic Negrito

You're not going out there to make a living out of it by selling records. You want acclaim and you want to know people…

— Kevin Drew

I think these days, as an artist, you have to be slightly entrepreneurial. ...Nobody really sells records anymore.

— Boy George

“The old music industry is dead. We’re standing in the ruins of a business built on private jets, Cristal, $18 CDs and million-dollar recording…

— Larry Wacholtz

I suspect that we might actually start selling some records with these artists in about 10 years. Some the people who invested, they're a…

— Branford Marsalis

Selling a million records used to be a big deal. I guess it's not anymore.

— Dusty Hill

Now we know that, the way contracts are set up, it's not really made for artists to get rich from selling records - that's…

— Lisa Lopes

I am evidence that you don't have to sell a lot of records or succeed in the usual way to have a big audience…

— Leo Kottke

I think there are records that will sell, and I think what makes a record sell is a continuity of sound.

— Dr. Luke

I know the history of the record business so well because I followed Billie Holiday into the record studios. It was so primitive compared…

— Tony Bennett

The record business is an oxymoron. In the 1960s, there was an upside to selling plastic discs so labels took the risk - they…

— Tom Silverman