Shelley Berman Quotes

'90125' was our biggest-selling album worldwide.

The ultimate revenge is being on Top Of The Pops.

Obviously Hall & Oates wasn't overlooked by the masses in terms of the record sales.

If any of our songs ever did make it on the top ten, I'd disband the group immediately.

The artists in country music who stopped having hits are the ones who were led into something that wasn't them.

I really like The Vamps. I'm friends with a couple of the guys from the band, so that's fun.

You can only start a boyband if you kill one of the ones already out there.

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

'Never Gonna Give You Up' in 1987 was a huge international hit followed by several more, and while I appreciated how lucky I was, it catapulted me into a completely new world and simply took over my life.

My hits are not hits.

Obviously Spawn was at the top of the charts at that point so you get a lot of opportunities.

We don't go around the world counting ticket and record sales, nor do we glue our ears to the radio to hear what's trendy at the moment - we're not that type of band.

Having a Top 10 record changed my life a lot, you know?

We sold 1.5 million copies of the 'Abracadabra' album and 26,000 copies of 'Italian X-Rays.'

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

Nirvana was huge, but it didn't appeal to everyone.

The joy of songwriting only gets messed up if you are trying to follow up a big success, or you are trying to create a hit single, or if you have conscious thoughts of a particular outcome for the 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 always thought my records were number one; it's just the charts didn't think so.

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 think I've done a pretty fantastic job, but of course I want to sell millions of records.

You know, I'm the 1st black solo MC from Detroit. I didn't do the 50 Cent sales but hey... I got a long career, I'm still young and I'm trying to bring really good music.

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.

What does it mean to a person whose identity is very wrapped up in the music she makes, if her worth is measured by how many records she sells?

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.