Richard Marx Quotes

I thought my second record was good, but it didn't have that smash hit we did on the first one that somehow found its way onto tons of formats of radio stations.

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.

When no one's buying your records, it's easy to justify selling a song. But once you start selling records, you can't really justify having two songs in Cadillac commercials. It looks greedy. And it is greedy. This whole music thing should be about music.

I am in a business that's built on record sales and reputation and how your single is doing and where your song is on iTunes. But the kind of music that I do comes from my beliefs.

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.

The desire to hit a big home run is dominating the music business.

Music is so hard. It's a struggle to get people to care. It's hard to make an impact in today's world because people aren't buying records anymore.

Nowadays, you have to sell, like, half a million or a million records just to break even.

My best country record only sold 200,000 copies.

As long as you're giving up quality records and you're makin' hit records, people are always gonna want to hear a hit, and they'll always want to be attached to something that's doin' great.

I think it'd be a real nightmare to put a record out and sell 20 million copies and then that's it.

To be honest, I don't want No. 1's anymore. Now, don't get me wrong, I wouldn't mind the odd few, but I'd also like a record going in at eight and staying around.

I've sold a lot of records. Did I keep other artists from eating?

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

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

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.

What my whole object was is not to really sell records. I was trying to sell songs.

I want every song on it to be a hit.

Obviously there was the idea that we could sell more records if we played live, but I guess I didn't care enough to sell more records to do that.

I guess if I'd have more of a producer attitude, maybe I'd sell more records. But I'm basically a songwriter.

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.

Anything can wait for a hit record. That, after all, is what everyone wants at the end of the day.

I have this first album that sells more than 100,000 copies in its first week, debuts at number two, goes gold, the single goes platinum, we're doing Madison Square Garden.

To actually pursue our ambition to its zenith, we should have made another album, because in the States we'd only had one successful album. In a sense, Wham! failed in its ultimate goal, even though it got 75 or 95 percent of the way there.