Neil Innes Quotes

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

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

I don't really sell many records.

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.

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

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.

My best country record only sold 200,000 copies.

I want a hit. I don't think anybody spends 12 months writing and recording an album, making something cool, and says, 'Great, I hope this doesn't sell.' I don't understand that mind-set. I want hits: a big bunch of them.

Selling a million records used to be a big deal. I guess it's not anymore.

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.

In Australia, our first album went four-times platinum. It was massive.

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.

We always sold 4 or 5 million records no matter what we did.

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.

Obviously Hall & Oates wasn't overlooked by the masses in terms of the record sales.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

But when our first album came out, I didn't think it was going to sell a lot of records.

Well, the album 'Intuition' is out and just went platinum officially. So I think to have the music doing what it's doing right now, man, it's the ultimate. Nobody is really selling records out there but we are at a million records and we dropped it at Christmas, so we are just trying to get that thing to like two million, you know.