Dan Fogelberg Quotes

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

Nowadays people sell millions of records that can't sing.

In the history of pop music, a lot of great records cost an enormous amount of money. There used to be a time where people that had means to experiment would do it, you know?

When I do an album I try to find a producer that's excited about something that they want me to sing, and I check with the record company to find out what they think they can sell - which is their No. 1 priority.

I was strictly after hits when it came down to the Jackson 5. That's all I was concerned with.

I just want to keep saturating the market and radio with as many hit records as I can.

If I start trying to make a record for what I think could possibly get played on radio, I'm dead.

I have to write pretty songs; that's what gets them on the charts.

I've always wanted to write pop music. I never wanted to be cool or make a hipster record.

I was on mad platinum albums... I produced and wrote on them.

'Gargoyle' was inching towards a more accessible record.

I could make a PartyNextDoor album that's clean, all hits. That's not what I care about doing.

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 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?

Making good records tastes good in your mouh. And when that record sells, it tastes even better.

I have definitely reached the same level as Madonna in terms of sales. I'm really pleased about that.

When we came along there was only Decca, Philips and EMI who could really produce a record for you. You had to go through the whole bureaucracy to get into the recording studio. You were in such a humble position, you didn't have more than 12 hours to make a whole album, which is what we did in the early days.

I think that once an artist has proven herself and you sell lots of records, you should be compensated.

My best country record only sold 200,000 copies. I didn't have enough money for the band and the arrangements and the costumes and all. I had to move into wider fields.

I don't make my living making records. Maybe someday I will.

I've pretty much done records with everybody.

I didn't really think that it would be as easy as this. I did believe that the album [Faith] had a chance, because I though the material was strong enough, but things have just gone like clockwork. It's been incredible.

Just because you sell lots of records it doesn't mean to say you're any good. Look at Phil Collins.

My grandfather was Bob Shad, one of those legendary jazz and blues producers - he worked with Charlie Parker and Dinah Washington, and he produced Janis Joplin's album [1967's Big Brother & the Holding Company]. He always owned small labels as well - he had a label called Mainstream Records in the 70s.