Fred Astaire Quotes

Some musicians like to decorate their walls with discs saying: '1 million records sold in America.' I prefer to put up discs marking sales in lesser-known countries.

I'm a pretty bad troubadour. I'm more of a music fan who got away with making records.

Phil Collins sold five times as many records as I did. Does that make him nearly as influential as I am? Nope.

I'm such a perfectionist. I always feel overpraised or whatever. In the abstract, I know I'm a good person, a good professional. But it's nice to be noticed a little bit, ain't it?

No one sells records anymore. It's all about touring. It's all greatest hits records and box sets. And even those don't sell. People just go online.

I am quite content to go down to posterity as a scissors and paste man for that seems to me a harsh but not unjust description

I think I'd like to be remembered as someone who really helped people to have a little humility and realize that we are part of the animal kingdom not separated from it.

A great man left a watchword that we can well repeat: "There is no indispensable man"

I'm not anti single. I'm not one of them niggas that say "Aww record sales ain't everything." No. I wanna sell good. I would love a platinum record on radio and charts.

I think these days, as an artist, you have to be slightly entrepreneurial. ...Nobody really sells records anymore.

I would be disappointed if I were remembered as a runner because I feelthat my contribution to the youth of America has far exceeded the woman who was the Olympic champion.

You gotta' sell a million records before you talk about getting paid at a major [label].

I just know that, right now, ... the biggest record selling business there is is rock and roll.

I'm selling more records on my own than I did on major labels.

Who builds a church to God and not to fame, Will never mark the marble with his name.

I don't measure success by how many buildings have my name on it.

I wasn't thinking so much of music. I wasnt thinking so much of perfection or stardom or any of that stuff.

I've been associated with Warren ( Buffett) so long, I thought I'd be just a footnote.

It is a hard and nice subject for a man to speak of himself: it grates his own heart to say anything of disparagement, and the reader's ear to hear anything of praise from him.

I want to keep making records as long as I can and that's the beginning and end of my concern about selling records.

What I said, what are you [Rick Rubin] going to do with me that nobody else has been able to do to sell records with me?

I waited, and I’m sure Elvis did too, for each Ricky Nelson record like we would a Chuck Berry record or a Fats Domino record, to see what was going on. I used to say to some of the guys that Ricky Nelson learned to sing on million selling records.

Modesty is a bright dish-cover, which makes us fancy there is something very nice underneath it.

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