Art Quote by Sir Mix-a-Lot

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

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

— Stephan Jenkins

You see so many musicians come and go. For me, it's really about the longevity in the music industry. It's not all about having…

— Mustard

Unquestionably, our contemporary world of music is far richer, in a sense, than earlier periods, due to the historical and geographical extensions of culture…

— George Crumb

It was two extremes of influence being put next to each other: the most electronic music we have on the record and the most…

— Ryan Ross

Before the whole [music] business was calibrated around the selling of records. I never could have imagined that live performance would become kind of…

— Arthur Fogel

I suppose if you make enough money with one album, you can relax the rest of your life. I would rather go for smaller…

— Anoushka Shankar

I think right now, you've seen these artists pop up over the last decade who've flirted with branching together a lot of different kinds…

— Eric Church

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

— Boy George

Sometimes I think albums are so ambitious, they don't stand as bodies of work because you try to achieve so much, and sometimes we…

— No I.D

But some great records are are being made with today's technology and there are still great artists among us. Likewise there are artists today…

— Tony Visconti

As far as the creative side of making great, great albums and really trying to go down in history? I don't see that happening…

— Raekwon