Ray LaMontagne Quotes

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

I feel like I'd like to continue putting out records and start putting them out more rapidly than I have until now and for me if I can keep selling the records to the fans that already like me that's fine.

You don't want the biggest record deal as far as money goes, you just want to make sure that the people at the label really support your band and the music and stuff.

I think that there will always be artists out there who think they need to sign a major label deal in order to be successful. And that machine is what is going to work for them - there's tons of examples of pop stars who need that machine.

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

After we wrote The Wreckoning, our record label did listen.

My record label is treating me like I'm a new artist, which is exciting after all this time.

If you want to put out a million CDs and sell them and get them played on the radio, and even videos, or whatever, if that still exists, that kind of muscle can only come from a label like Columbia.

It's really tough - if you're on a major label and they want you to have a number one song, you need to do what they say.

I just think that any person who wants music to be their career shouldn't focus on a record label. I have seen friends who sign to a label too early in their career, and they lost control over their music, and their releases were delayed or never put out.

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

If a new artist comes, and he doesn't have a good record label to invest in him, then there is no point.

You need a platform upon which to release an orchestral record, otherwise it's just going to be an obscurity.

This is a very screwed-up business. Record labels don't sign a lot of bands these days. We just want to find a home and stay there and make records and do our thing and not have to look over our shoulder.

We had an EP out and all of a sudden we find record companies are interested in us, and we're thinking, 'Oh, that's really nice, but we don't think we're ready for it.'

Bands that say they don't care about how their records sell are liars.

I want to sell out arenas and make an album and work with some of the best artists in the world.

A lot of people see a Nissan ad and they see a finished product in a record store or on iTunes and that's the face of the band.

Well, I tried to get a record deal in 1966 or '67, and everyone thought I was too eclectic.

There isn't a single artist out there, I'm sure, who wouldn't take the most perfect record deal. If the right record deal came along, like, the perfect deal, we'd definitely take it.

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

Our first record, 'Huey Lewis And The News', was seen by no one - it sold 25 copies.

There was a bidding war between Epic Records and Jive - now RCA - which was bittersweet. Just having labels bid over me was really cool, but I ended up going with Jive because it felt better over there, and they have my favorite artists like Usher, Chris Brown, and Justin Timberlake.

I did my thing with Jive. I was a national recording artist, but I had run into a wall.

I made that first record in 2008, alongside the EP, but my label at the time waited three years to release it. They thought maybe someone bigger would buy it, but they didn't, so in the end they just released it themselves.