Sir Mix-a-Lot Quotes

I haven't had a big hit record in America since 1987.

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

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

There's something extraordinary about selling millions and millions of albums.

Nahmir got smash hits.

I went from the most underground band in the world to signing with Madonna's producer and a record label that is extremely mainstream - it was interesting.

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

I want to sell out arenas and sell millions of records.

Roadrunner wanted to make Born in the Flood the next Nickelback, but I didn't want to be that. I didn't want to be a huge rock star playing songs I didn't like. I didn't want to be stuck playing 'Anthem,' the song everybody liked but I didn't want to put on the record, for the next five years.

Slow, Deep And Hard was a great album, even though it was probably our least selling record.

I'm not trying to sound pretentious, but we did sell 12 million records on the first album, so we did get paid a little bit.

If I could sell 500 million records every time, it would be great. But I've also had the luxury experience of having it when I was a teenager, in a very kind of model version of it.

When we were on the road, I found out that my greatest hits album went Gold. They freaked out. Things really came to a head when we started arguing about a Van Halen greatest hits package.

I was a 10 million-plus selling artist.

I know I will never have a hit single in America.

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

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

If I have a hit, then I hope the people who like the hit song go out and buy my album so they can hear it all.

If there is a good musical reason, I think it might draw more attention and sell, though it is not guaranteed. To make a record without a musical reason, you have to either be a pop star who sells automatically or just be lucky.

Singles, whatever. But selling a million albums feels like an impossible thing to do.

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

I grew up in an era where the record companies just sold records to everybody, and the whole family bought songs.

Adele is selling millions of records, and everybody tries to sing like Adele.

I don't consider myself to be a great musician, but my first album was a record hit in Pakistan.

Bands like - even Kiss to a degree - bands like Kiss and Motley, Ratt, Poison, Bon Jovi - I just think the days of those bands going out and selling ten or twelve, fifteen million records like they used to do back in the day, it's not happening.