Gerry Beckley Quotes

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

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 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.

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

Raoul' sold a respectable 700,000 copies without a hit single. It didn't take off. If you don't sell 8 million albums or 4 million albums again, everybody deems it a big failure.

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

But I remember we sold nearly 18,000 records in one day.

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.

My best country record only sold 200,000 copies.

Even an independent label is looking for a hit, they're not looking for a record that's not gonna do well.

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

The record companies didn't want 'Stony Road,' and it ended up being a gold album. They didn't want 'Blue Guitars,' and we did 165,000 books.

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.

Bands that say they don't care about how their records sell are liars.

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

YouTube was really good for building a kind of core, loyal fanbase. I didn't want to be a YouTube artist as such. I mean, there are people who are able to release albums and live off YouTube, but I felt - and not in an arrogant way - that I could be commercial and credible if I really put my mind to it.

I would be a huge hypocrite if I didn't tell you that at one time in my life I thought the way that you made music was you got on a major label and you got famous.

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.

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

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

Chart numbers can be deceiving. An album doesn't have to sell that much these days to show up really high on the charts.

I genuinely don't know how many albums I'm going to sell when the new album comes out, because I honestly don't know how many fans I've actually got at the moment.

We went into that knowing that we were never going to sell a major record 'cause we didn't sound like these bands, so I just thought this was an opportunity for us to make the kind of records that we wanted and make some money at the same time.