John Frusciante Quotes

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

Working with Tesco has been such an interesting avenue to go down that I'm keen to find other avenues to release music.

The label doesn't do anything but put your record in the store, that's all they do. And tell you, you don't have a single... and tell you, it's not gonna sell... that's what the label does.

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.

I have hundreds and hundreds of songs waiting to get on albums, but I don't know about the three-month radio tours and if I'll be interested in that. I haven't figured it out, but I will definitely be doing music, whether it is independent or with a major record label.

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.

The desire to hit a big home run is dominating the music business.

Music is so hard. It's a struggle to get people to care. It's hard to make an impact in today's world because people aren't buying records anymore.

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

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.

I just want to keep saturating the market and radio with as many hit records as I can.

Nowadays, you have to sell, like, half a million or a million records just to break even.

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.

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

I want to make more fans, sell records.

I've never sold a lot of records.

All record companies want big-selling records, and my music is a little too raw for commercial success.

When you are a commercial music artist, your music depends on your popularity.

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

I don't really know what a debut album is no more. As long as you got music on the streets, you've debuted.

I make records all the time. But making records is not quite the same as getting them to the audience.

I just think that any person who wants music to be their career shouldn't focus on a record label. I have seen friends who sign to a label too early in their career, and they lost control over their music, and their releases were delayed or never put out.

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