Joseph Jackson Quotes

I think 'All Out of Love' is my favorite song because it's been the most successful. It's been in about 30 movies, it's been a number one record, and it keeps getting played on the radio, it's always somewhere.

It's pretty amazing to me that my first hit record was an Elvis Presley record.

I'm so famous, people expect me to sell as many records as Celine Dion or Puff Daddy.

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

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

Oh, Michael Jackson is Michael Jackson. And no matter if he sold 40 million records off of one record and sold 15 off his last or whatever the counts may be, Michael Jackson will be Michael Jackson.

In 1983 I'd had a number one. I'd sold 6 million copies of Total Eclipse Of The Heart all over the world.

Well, the album 'Intuition' is out and just went platinum officially. So I think to have the music doing what it's doing right now, man, it's the ultimate. Nobody is really selling records out there but we are at a million records and we dropped it at Christmas, so we are just trying to get that thing to like two million, you know.

If you have to be a one-hit wonder, then 'San Francisco' is the one to have.

'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.

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

In 20 years I had sold more records for RCA than any artist except Elvis Presley.

Bands that say they don't care about how their records sell are liars.

Johnny Rivers is underestimated as an artist. We had four top 10 singles.

I've just been fortunate to havehad a lot of hit records, though Human Wheels doesn't qualify as a hit record-but it's really the best single I've ever had.

Obviously Spawn was at the top of the charts at that point so you get a lot of opportunities.

If there is a good musical reason, I think it might draw more attention and sell, though it is not guaranteed. To make a record without a musical reason, you have to either be a pop star who sells automatically or just be lucky.

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

George Martin recorded a lot of my stuff before the Beatles, so I observed their meteoric rise.

Our first album sold a million copies. Because we had such a big hit on the first album, it's always like, 'You can't top the first album.'

We always thought if 'Beauty and the Beat' sold even 100,000 copies, we'd be real happy and a successful group, so when it reached a million... Hey, we just laughed about it.

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.

If Hank Williams had lived any longer, his name would have been one of the most hated in the land. Nashville would have dug him deep.

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 have this first album that sells more than 100,000 copies in its first week, debuts at number two, goes gold, the single goes platinum, we're doing Madison Square Garden.