Kenny G Quotes

MTV made a huge impact. Heavy rotation took you from selling 1m albums to 20m albums, and that meant a lot of dough.

My best country record only sold 200,000 copies.

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.

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

The label doesn't do anything but put your record in the store, that's all they do. And tell you, you don't have a single... and tell you, it's not gonna sell... that's what the label does.

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

You know, if nobody knows who you are, nobody's going to buy your record.

'Dream Police' was in the can and ready to go when 'Budokan' started taking off worldwide, sales-wise.

I want to make more fans, sell records.

When you are a commercial music artist, your music depends on your popularity.

I think we'd sold a couple hundred records with our first album, maybe 1,000 at the most.

There's people that have never heard our album. The most they've seen is either our video on 'TRL' or our picture on the cover of magazines.

In Australia, our first album went four-times platinum. It was massive.

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 don't really sell many records.

I can work my butt off and create an album that's wonderful, but if it's never played and never given the outlet, it won't succeed.

The music industry is saying, This is the format, and if you'll fit into this format, you can be on radio, and if radio will play you, MTV will expose you, and MTV will expose you, we'll sell 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.

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.

Even though the popularity and the fanbase is much much greater, and more people have heard about me through things like the Grammys and the Ivors and touring and word of mouth, it doesn't reflect in the sales of the record and doesn't go into my pocket.

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

When we were on the road, I found out that my greatest hits album went Gold. They freaked out. Things really came to a head when we started arguing about a Van Halen greatest hits package.

I don't think the label cares about an album... People just want their number-one record.

I don't think they like the idea that the people who are buying the record get to choose what goes out, because it's their job. The fans even pre-ordered stock to make sure that I had some sort of presence.

I genuinely don't know how many albums I'm going to sell when the new album comes out, because I honestly don't know how many fans I've actually got at the moment.