Glenn Frey Quotes

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

If I have a hit, then I hope the people who like the hit song go out and buy my album so they can hear it all.

If any of our songs ever did make it on the top ten, I'd disband the group immediately.

A lot of bad music sells a million copies; I don't think it's a good litmus test for whether things are going well.

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

'If I Can Dream' is my all-time favorite Elvis song. It was a big record, but not as big as it could have been. It was one of those records where you'd think it sold 10 billion copies, but it didn't.

A record for us that sells 50,000 is a good record, and 100,000 is a serious hit.

I don't think you're selling out by allowing the masses to love your art. The only curse is that, when you get so big, sometimes people forget to look at the music.

I think we'd sold a couple hundred records with our first album, maybe 1,000 at the most.

When something is not liked by people, you cannot make it run, however big actor or producer you may be. The audience has to make it a hit. The power is in the hands of the public.

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

But what you realise after you've been in the business for a while is that people develop opinions about you that don't have anything to do with your music, they like or dislike you for a million reasons, they like or dislike you for your last record.

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

Obviously Hall & Oates wasn't overlooked by the masses in terms of the record sales.

Right from the first time we went to America in 1968, Led Zeppelin was a word-of-mouth thing. You can't really compare it to how it is today.

Avril Lavigne sold a massive amount of albums and she has to top that with her next release. We have four great albums behind us, and it's not going to be as hard to live up to that.

The reason it has lasted for 30 years is for one reason and one reason only: Classic Rock radio.

With Celine Dion, we were selling 25 million records a pop. 'Pop' stands for 'popular.' It means we're plugging into the masses.

There's no pressure for me to go out there and say, I've got to have a top 40 hit because it's not going to happen.

I think it would be nice to sell 15 million albums as a solo artist. I'd have to deal with all the repercussions of that, but that wouldn't be too bad.

It's a strange thing, this idea that for some reason, if a lot of people like what you're doing, it's therefore not very good. We use the phrase that a band have 'sold out.' Just so you know, if you're doing a gig and you sell all your tickets, that is a brilliant thing to do.

I know I will never have a hit single in America.

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

I mean in recent years, I think you've only got to sell thirty or forty thousand to get a #1.

You look at what One Direction has done and just say, 'That is just lucky;' it is not. It is happening because they are talented boys, good looking lads; and yes, their songs might not be the typical songs that lots of radios want to play, but they are great songs, pop records, that are massive across the world selling in huge numbers.