Austin Carlile Quotes

Those record companies don't know what's happening at all.

I think it's a reflection of the music business in general, which to me seems very fragmented.

The whole format of entertainment that I did seems to be fading away. The music business of today is completely different when you see the videos and the music.

My father would make record after record, and he'd be so surprised at what would sell and what wouldn't.

Selling a million records used to be a big deal. I guess it's not anymore.

Everything ain't just about the radio.

No. 1 records are fine, but in 2016, they just don't mean as much any more - the currency has changed.

I guess the way people release music and the way people listen to it has changed and is changing constantly. We wanna get the music out as quickly as possible. We're sitting on a lot of stuff and constantly making new stuff as well.

Commercial music, for the most part, is popular music and you always have to keep that in mind.

There are a lot of musicians who are still desperately trying to pretend that it's 1998 and by having a huge marketing campaign, they somehow believe that they can sell 10 million records. That's delusional. No one sells 10 million records. The days of musicians getting rich off of selling records are done.

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.

With pop music, the format dictates the form to a big degree. Just think of the pop single. It has endured as a form even in the download age because bands conform to a strict format, and work, often very productively, within the parameters.

The making of music is profoundly affected by the market.

Back in the day, the album was king in many ways. And, of course, we were very tied in with the birth of FM/college radio in the States, and what we were doing suited the format of those young radio stations.

I'm wide open and will entertain anything anybody has to say, but if it's MTV and radio, well, they're great things, but can't be the only thing. I don't know that it would work even for the Beatles.

The biggest problem is always getting hits. That's the one thing that has never changed. The way of delivering music has changed, the way of listening to it has changed, the way of distributing it has changed, but it's always the music.

Independent artists and labels have always been the trend setters in music and the music business.

Serious musicians are finding it harder and harder to have a voice in the world of music these days.

I would sell 2 million records, a million went to teenagers and a million went to the adults. So, when The Beatles became so popular, I lost a million to the teenagers, but I was still selling a million to the adults.

I grew up in the day when the Beatles sold 1 million singles in a week. And all you've got to do now is sell about 10,000 singles and you're in the charts.

It's like, on my solo stuff, every single person who buys the record, gets it. On the other stuff, the masses... when you have a hit on the radio, not everyone's going to get it. They are going to buy it for the hit.

There's so much excellent new music around that I can't afford to buy it all and I haven't the time to review as much as I'd like. I can't remember a better time to be a musician or to listen to music!

What changed our lives forever was when Malcolm had the idea to sell rock 'n roll records to trendy customers.

You stayed up on the record business by knowing who was doing what. You watched the Phil Spectors. That's what told you what to do, what was hot.

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