Chinmayi Quotes

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

One has to create music with mass appeal and not something which is niche. With niche music, you will only go a small distance.

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.

Anyone who says they want to make a game that becomes a cult classic is kinda screwy, right? I mean, you want to reach the largest audience you can.

I'm in a really lucky position where people will be interested in whatever I do, but what I do is sing.

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.

But I never had that commercial opportunity to be played on the radio, so how could I be popular?

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.

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 feel that I want what allows me to reach the largest number of people as possible, and I don't feel ashamed of that. I think I'm the kind of artist that's meant to be on a major label because my music is different.

If you want to be a singer, you've got to concentrate on it twenty-four hours a day. You can't be a well driller, too. You've got to concentrate on the business of entertaining and writing songs. Always think different from the next person. Don't ever do a song as you heard somebody else do it.

Despite whatever commercial kind of success you might have or radio success, I don't want to do something just to get as many people as possible to listen.

It's interesting, because as a musician, I don't feel like I need to be on the top of the pop charts.

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

I don't like working with hitmakers. I don't want hits! You're not even allowed to say that word around me.

I want to make something commercial that people can pick up on.

I have cut four albums so far, and all of them have been trendsetters and commercially successful. I believe that once you start taking art in commercial terms, it ceases to be art.

Hey, I didn't make a big deal out of Hotel California. The 18 million people that bought it did.

The show I did in England catered to a broad range of people. I like that. I don't want nouveau cult status, though I know we've got that sort of audience in the states.

Even the bands I dig don't have a history of attaining mass consumption.

I want my films to get audiences. I am not interested in making them just for myself.

I think you have a crossover when you are known to a wider audience and a different market. I've been able to sell out stadiums all over the world by doing my music. I'm lucky to be in that list without having done an official crossover. Now, will you hear me doing a little bit of R&B? Sure.

We were a very popular live band in London, packing in 6,000 people a night, and the record companies that came after us wanted us to be the flavor of the month.

Forty-five million people hit that button for 'In These Streets.' When you find out you have that kind of popularity, you better use it. It's called responsibility.

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