Evan Dando Quotes

I like bands that don't necessarily sell the most records.

We don't go around the world counting ticket and record sales, nor do we glue our ears to the radio to hear what's trendy at the moment - we're not that type of band.

Pop music has always been about the mainstream and what appeals to the public.

Selling millions of albums is a sign you've infiltrated the culture.

My first five albums were triple-platinum, and I played a lot of concerts.

I guess the bottom line is I don't make music that is consumed en masse.

I thought my second record was good, but it didn't have that smash hit we did on the first one that somehow found its way onto tons of formats of radio stations.

I want my music to be really big. I have no interest in DIY Brooklyn; I don't want to be a small indie band.

We never said we were hard-core or that we didn't want our music crossing over or being popular.

Never hate a song that's sold a half million copies.

It was really weird to have a hit. Of course, we had a certain level of fame in the Pixies, but nothing I had ever done had been mall-kid friendly.

You can tell when you're in a hit.

I know that bands that haven't put out a record for 10 years are playing to 20,000 people a night. But that's not the achievement.

I don't feel I'm making a conscious effort to go more commercial.

There's something extraordinary about selling millions and millions of albums.

I'd say the best thing the Violators and I have done is to dominate the U.S. with an arsenal of smash hits.

I had a style before I was signed, but now I'm developing my commercial sound as well as trying to strike a balance between authentic music and music that the masses will love.

We don't want it to be obscure music. We're not trying to be indie. We want to be popular.

I'm going to make the music I make regardless and it's always going to be driven by rhythm and blues and hopefully it becomes popular. But I don't cater to, like, 'OK, I want to make music that's going to fit in this pop world or go on the charts, etcetera, etcetera.' Hopefully, enough people like it so it becomes popular.

We're not trying to be a mega-pop-band, but we also wouldn't be opposed to selling millions of records, either.

I don't know why we sold a lot of records or why so many people came to see us. Like 'Sabotage' - would you put that song on, like, 'I'm gonna listen to that right now?' It's a weird choice.

I think that's one of the beautiful things about this genre is that everyone who's in it isn't in it to make a million bucks and be popular, because that's not always our M.O. Really, I think the last time that rock was truly in the mainstream was probably a point in time in the '90s when there was a lot of alternative that was on the pop charts.

Commercial success won't come to us from a change in the music. It will gradually be the result of a change in the appetite of the audience.

I think R&B is way bigger in America. It's not really that mainstream in the U.K.

I remember people telling me that at 5 1/2 minutes long, 'Lightning Crashes' would never be a hit song.