Album Quote by Rick Allen

I think the music business is probably not happy with what we've done, because the people buying the record have actually got to pick…

— John Otway

Our first album was a stupid mistake by the record company. They tried to sell us as an alternative act. A big mistake!

— Lauryn Hill

There's no more record companies, so I have to get on the Internet and let people know the album is out there. I don't…

— Joe Walsh

Record sales don't really mean anything. For us, the pressure is imagining some 15-year-old kid in Cincinnati who buys our album and doesn't feel…

— Chris Martin

But when our first album came out, I didn't think it was going to sell a lot of records.

— Stephan Jenkins

I think for us, we don't feel like the future of music is in the act of being a record company. We feel like…

— Zac Hanson

I do read the records reviews but more out of curiosity than anything else, I feel like we know what we want to do…

— Robin Pecknold

At the moment we're playing more stuff from our upcoming album which is really a departure from any record we've done.

— Matthew Healy

There's something insane about this business - about the cycle of making albums and going on tour to promote them.

— Martin Gore

We've made bad albums in the past, and people have bought them. I don't know. I don't care. I'm just grateful for it.

— Lemmy

It would have been better if the first album sold well, the second sold better and the third really took off. Maybe that would've…

— Jani Lane

I feel like that for the next album, we're going to know what we're doing for each song even more than what we did…

— Theresa Wayman