Peter Tosh Quotes

I don't really sell many records.

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

My best country record only sold 200,000 copies.

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

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

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.

It's really tough - if you're on a major label and they want you to have a number one song, you need to do what they say.

Anything can wait for a hit record. That, after all, is what everyone wants at the end of the day.

It was so simple in the old days. You put out an album, people promoted it, it got in the charts, and you had a hit.

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.

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.

Yes it was we, are a few years back parted from our record company and took the album that we were making with them and released it independently in the United States had a number one Independent debut in the United States.

I think that there will always be artists out there who think they need to sign a major label deal in order to be successful. And that machine is what is going to work for them - there's tons of examples of pop stars who need that machine.

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

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

In the '80s, the way radio was programmed, if you didn't have a hit record you weren't going to be able to make any more records. That was it, period.

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.

I have sold 120 million records. Half of those could be in Europe.

Singles, whatever. But selling a million albums feels like an impossible thing to do.

Record companies worrying more about market share than developing artists - I hear there was a time when if your first record didn't sell 8m copies, you were still given a chance to grow as a songwriter.

I can say that my big records and my success have been due to the backing which Atlantic have put behind me.

It's not essential for me to have a big debut week; it's not essential for me to have big radio records.