Imogen Heap Quotes

I'm not trying to sound pretentious, but we did sell 12 million records on the first album, so we did get paid a little bit.

MTV made a huge impact. Heavy rotation took you from selling 1m albums to 20m albums, and that meant a lot of dough.

I actually don't think that I'm gonna sell a lot of records.

The desire to hit a big home run is dominating the music business.

Unless I've got Katy Perry on the cover of my CD, it's going to be tough to sell a lot of records.

I have never made a cent off a record in my life. I have never recouped enough, and I never sold enough. When people see you have a song on MTV, they think you are doing well - but you know, the way the traditional label deal was set up, it is really hard for an artist, unless they sold a lot, to see anything.

My biggest frustration is the lack of scale in the music industry. The fact that no one has sold 100 million copies of an album is frustrating.

When you are a commercial music artist, your music depends on your popularity.

We could be as rich as the Rolling Stones if we sold as many records.

I want to sell out arenas and sell millions of records.

As for the music business itself, the key things have not changed that much. It operates like any business and money still keeps things moving.

I don't know how many records I'm selling.

Some musicians like to decorate their walls with discs saying: '1 million records sold in America.' I prefer to put up discs marking sales in lesser-known countries.

A Grammy is really nice, but having lots of fans is really nice, too. I think just getting a record out is a success on its own.

In whichever way my music can get out there, I'm just like, 'Sure.' It's also through the TV synch licenses that I've been surviving. I don't really make money through record sales. I used to be really picky: 'No, I don't want it to be the song of a commercial,' but nowadays it's what you need to do to get the song out as much as you can.

Nowadays, you have to sell, like, half a million or a million records just to break even.

When people see you have a song on MTV, they think you are doing well - but you know, the way the traditional label deal was set up, it is really hard for an artist, unless they sold a lot, to see anything.

I think it'd be a real nightmare to put a record out and sell 20 million copies and then that's it.

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.

Even an independent label is looking for a hit, they're not looking for a record that's not gonna do well.

The Band never really played big concert tours. We never sold millions and millions of albums.

I don't get the airplay that one in my position deserves. 'Twist and Shout' gets more airplay than 'The Twist,' and that's not right.

When I started playing music, people weren't selling 5 million records. That was not the standard; that was not the focus.

Man, I was scared. I didn't know what to think. All of a sudden, I got a record climbing the charts, and I'm out in the streets. You know, workin' on the docks. And the first week, it sold something like 40,000 in New Orleans.

We were on the road playing when we started acquiring gold records.