Karen Carpenter Quotes

Nobody ever knows how big a song is going to be.

Crossfire's done very well. I knew it was a great song, but I didn't know it would be so big.

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.

I figured the songs wouldn't make much of a splash. I didn't think 'Take Me To Church' would play on the radio or get in the charts, and I didn't think about dealing with a global audience.

Any song that does well, we're happy with. All we can do is keep writing great songs and hope that one catches on.

We were number one most added at radio, when the single came out and that's much different. It took like eight months for any radio to happen on the first record, so a lot more support has happened right out of the box.

When 'I'm Sorry' came out and became such a huge hit, that made 'Rockin' Around The Christmas Tree' start selling. Then that became a huge, huge hit.

For me, if 'Maryland' became half of what 'Searchin' My Soul' became, as far as radio play goes, I would be thrilled.

American Idols that come off the show and don't have a hit song - that makes it tough. If you come off the show and the song isn't big, and it takes a couple months to get your single out there - that time could be damaging.

You can tell when you're in a hit.

There's no pressure for me to go out there and say, I've got to have a top 40 hit because it's not going to happen.

I had no idea 'Big Green Tractor' was going to be as big a hit as it was. You just can't predict those things.

We call them impact songs, and people buy impact songs. But you just never know what those songs are going to be. One of those songs that really went through the roof for us was 'Big Green Tractor,' which I thought was kind of a fun little ditty song that I never in a million years thought would be as big as it was. But it was.

My best country record only sold 200,000 copies.

When you finish a song, your first thought is going to be, 'Is this song a hit?' I hate that we think that way, because it kind of takes a little bit of the meaning out of the songs that are being written, but you're definitely going to think, 'Can this song be put on the radio?'

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.

I was wildly out of style when that television theme song suddenly pushed its way onto the Top Ten. It was certainly not the record company trying to make that happen.

You never know until a song comes out and becomes what it becomes, obviously you can't predict how the masses will react.

A lot of bad music sells a million copies; I don't think it's a good litmus test for whether things are going well.

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

I think it would be nice to sell 15 million albums as a solo artist. I'd have to deal with all the repercussions of that, but that wouldn't be too bad.

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

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

When you have a very hot single there is no reason why it can't drive album sales. People fall off and come back on. I'm looking forward to coming back on with a vengeance.

What I really want is a commercial hit. If you're in a hit, you're suddenly a star, whether you acted well or not.