Bobby Vinton Quotes

It's like, on my solo stuff, every single person who buys the record, gets it. On the other stuff, the masses... when you have a hit on the radio, not everyone's going to get it. They are going to buy it for the hit.

Commercial music, for the most part, is popular music and you always have to keep that in mind.

D.C. is one my largest audiences. They buy tons of records of mine in Washington, D.C.

Surface R&B doesn't work any more. The whole heartthrob thing, songs about unrealistic love and tearing your shirt off every show - that's not really where it's at any more. It's becoming harder for those guys to sell records, and harder for them to succeed.

People get passionate about a song. It's been my experience if you put out radio candy, something commercial, it doesn't sell records.

My father would make record after record, and he'd be so surprised at what would sell and what wouldn't.

I don't quite know how the urban music category came about, but I suspect it had something to do with trying to maximise sales.

I don't like the way a lot of music is going these days. No one buys it.

The record business has always mystified me. Sometimes there are reasons why things sell or don't sell that can't be understood by mere mortals.

In England, rock music very rarely infiltrates the charts, but country music even less so.

The market didn't define the music; the music defined the market.

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

The 'rock world' is a lot smaller than it used to be. It's doing a lot less things than it used to be. From Woodstock back in the day and Rage Against the Machine, no one sells millions of records anymore.

I grew up in the day when the Beatles sold 1 million singles in a week. And all you've got to do now is sell about 10,000 singles and you're in the charts.

What changed our lives forever was when Malcolm had the idea to sell rock 'n roll records to trendy customers.

Pop is the most competitive form of music there is. You are always fighting to be adopted and accepted by the masses, and it's always shifting.

Mick Jagger's fans bought records with their allowances. Sinatra's people bought them out of wages.

I grew up in an era where the record companies just sold records to everybody, and the whole family bought songs. Today, record companies are failing because they are putting their accent just on the young, and I think that's rather silly.

I like bands that don't necessarily sell the most records.

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

'Course, 'Santini' bombed in England, y'know. It came out at the height of the New Wave, which couldn't have been a worse time for a solo singer trying to sell rock melodies.

There's a tremendous audience out there for popular music. It's a bigger audience than for movies.

A lot of times with artists from back in the day, they do a new album and they don't sell as much. People say they love them, and it doesn't always translate to new music.

It seemed record companies wanted bands to be creative because they didn't know how to manufacture underground music. We could do our own thing and go at our own pace. But that changed when major labels started wanting bands that would sell 7 million records.

No. 1 records are fine, but in 2016, they just don't mean as much any more - the currency has changed.