Marvin Sapp Quotes

I'm making music for the people. If y'all love the music, y'all gonna buy the music.

All of the sudden the audiences started getting younger and the spread of the attendance was really wide. I think it's as a result of the records selling more that they started following our careers.

I have hundreds and hundreds of people from Brazil, Chile, Columbia and Argentina, every day, buying my music and telling me about it online.

But I remember we sold nearly 18,000 records in one day.

Every generation of rock musician will understand that we wouldn't be anywhere without the support of teenagers buying the records.

Music is the one part of the entertainment business where you can't fool anybody into buying a record.

I would sell 2 million records, a million went to teenagers and a million went to the adults. So, when The Beatles became so popular, I lost a million to the teenagers, but I was still selling a million to the adults.

It's like, on my solo stuff, every single person who buys the record, gets it. On the other stuff, the masses... when you have a hit on the radio, not everyone's going to get it. They are going to buy it for the hit.

There's a tremendous audience out there for popular music. It's a bigger audience than for movies.

Are there a million people out there who would love a Joey Cook album? I think there probably are.

I want my fans to listen to my music. Period.

It's kind of crazy to see how many people actually listen to my music.

I don't want to put my fate in country music fans; I'm too stubborn.

Commercial music, for the most part, is popular music and you always have to keep that in mind.

I guess I've been making records since I was 16, and even when 50 people bought them, I thought that was amazing.

Now, we are selling over 5 million songs a day now. Isn't that unbelievable? That's 58 songs every second of every minute of every hour of every day.

As long as someone wants to hear my music, I don't care if it's a ringtone or the album or whatever.

Chart numbers can be deceiving. An album doesn't have to sell that much these days to show up really high on the charts.

Well, you know, back then there wasn't many albums, it was the singles. You sold singles.

It's a sad state when more people retweet than buy records.

It doesn't matter how good you are as a band or how good your music may be; if the fans aren't supporting it and buying your music, it's hard to make it.

The only thing I've ever offered the public is some music. If they like the music, that's great. Turn on the radio. If they don't like it, switch it off.

'Course, 'Santini' bombed in England, y'know. It came out at the height of the New Wave, which couldn't have been a worse time for a solo singer trying to sell rock melodies.

That's absolutely one of my main goals, to have a number one on Billboard. That's a big thing for me. That means people are buying and listening to your music.

There's always a market for music.