Peter Frampton Quotes

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

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

My best country record only sold 200,000 copies.

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

'Dream Police' was in the can and ready to go when 'Budokan' started taking off worldwide, sales-wise.

I mean, when we put out our first album, it was 'Gosh, we really hope it sells 100,000 copies. That was the innocence.

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

The 'Frampton' album sold better than all of the other solo records that I'd had, put together. It was over 300,000 copies, so that was a good signal that we were poised for my first gold record.

I don't really sell many records.

I was working with Bill Graham management at the time and it was obvious to everyone concerned that albums like Open Fire, while they were good for me creatively, were not going to be commercially successful.

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

Slow, Deep And Hard was a great album, even though it was probably our least selling record.

First of all, I've been having a wonderful run of luck with cover albums, songs I didn't write. I had five pop cover albums and two Christmas albums, and they were all very successful.

I want to sell out arenas and make an album and work with some of the best artists in the world.

When I made my first album, there was no indication that anybody other than my parents were going to buy it.

I know acts and I'm not going to name names but these people sold ten million copies the first time and the second album sells three million and it's considered a failure and they're dropped and that's really a shame.

We were at Pye Studios for half an hour so we set the gear up and we did two tracks. A month later we found out it was selling thirty thousand copies a day.

I don't think the label cares about an album... People just want their number-one record.

There's a big difference between doing the odd gig and actually having a record out and your name being on the ticket.

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

The last album, 'Falling Faster Than You Can Run.' I was really proud of, but then I didn't actually know whether it was going to come out on any label at all. So I didn't know if anyone was going to hear it. Then of course we ended up doing another EP after that called 'Closer.'

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

Eventually, when I sell enough units, as they say in the record business, I will stop touring. I'll concentrate on what I like to do... stay in the studio.

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.

When you're releasing an album, you never know how it's going to go. You never know how a critic is going to receive it or how much it's going to sell.