John Otway Quotes

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

People in the music business say don't make too many records because they'll compete against one another.

There's not a great danger in releasing the first single from an album without a video because the momentum from the last album will cause large numbers of fans to buy it.

If you are the record label who owns Lady Gaga, and you have a new artist coming up, you can say, 'Let's have the artist play just before Gaga.' Now you've exposed the huge Gaga audience to the new artist. It's similar to showing a trailer before a movie. The hit creates a hit.

I have a fan base worldwide, man. I think they're really down for me. That's how I got signed - 30,000 fans retweeting Rick Ross.

There are three things we need to do for a band. We need to make a great record; we need to get the record played; and we need to find an audience for the live shows.

If I cut an album now and sell it for ten bucks, I can put seven dollars and fifty cents in my pocket.

I miss how a record label can help spread the word that you have something out.

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.

Artist development is something that I've been passionate about from my days at Uptown and Motown Records.

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

I feel like I'd like to continue putting out records and start putting them out more rapidly than I have until now and for me if I can keep selling the records to the fans that already like me that's fine.

A lot of people see a Nissan ad and they see a finished product in a record store or on iTunes and that's the face of the band.

Well, I was making a record, and I had to choose a name, because they said, you know, you can't make a record under the name of Reg Dwight, because it's never going to - you know, it's not attractive enough.

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

Our first record, 'Huey Lewis And The News', was seen by no one - it sold 25 copies.

This is a business built on promotion. We've been giving music away to radio stations for 30 years.

There has never been any proper commitment to marketing these artists and their music. We are not Sony.

When I do an album I try to find a producer that's excited about something that they want me to sing, and I check with the record company to find out what they think they can sell - which is their No. 1 priority.

With *NSYNC, we shopped our deal for a year in America, sang a capella in everybody's office, then moved to Germany for almost two years and became popular there. A guy representing a rock band came to our show in Budapest, saw 60,000 people get excited for a band from America that nobody in America knew, and told someone at RCA.

Traditionally the show must go on which is a stupid thing to say, but that in a nutshell is what's going on. We have a new record out; if we won't tour, the new record dies. It's reality - it's what business is nowadays. You just need to tour to sell your albums.

Our managers hadn't had that kind of success - the record company hadn't, we hadn't - and the feeling was that the next record had to be even bigger, and if it wasn't it would be some kind of failure.

My best country record only sold 200,000 copies.

Of course, I want to sell this record - there's no point making it otherwise.

I know if I don't tour people will forget the record and you run a high risk of the record failing.