Neal Schon Quotes

If I cut an album now and sell it for ten bucks, I can put seven dollars and fifty cents in my pocket.

I wrote and produced millions and millions of selling records, so my publishing company alone was worth millions of dollars. I didn't have to work anymore in life because when the rappers started sampling... I'm the most sampled artist in history.

Nowadays, you have to sell, like, half a million or a million records just to break even.

I don't know how much money I've made, don't know how many albums I've sold.

It's always boiled down to the quality of your music and the quality of your deal with whoever's distributing your music: There are artists who sold a lot of records and didn't make money because of their deal, and artists who didn't sell nearly as much who made a great living because they own their masters.

You see the music videos and the bling and the cars, but all of that goes home at the end of the shoot. They make nothing because there's less and less money in the music industry.

Well, a lot of our concerts do okay, and I know we still get royalty checks which still isn't that important, but again, I have to just say that we're making our records.

Recorded music is more a marketing tool than a revenue source.

It used to be that you made an album and then you went on the road to promote that album, hoping for good record sales. Well, good record sales basically don't exist any more, and the emphasis has been more on the live show.

It's a small percentile of people who see one dime out of the music business.

Kids are taking music for free all the time. They have Spotify, Pandora... The record companies aren't making the kind of music that they used to make. Artists make their money on tours, not from album sales.

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

I have always abhorred the business end of music.

We've sold over 100,000 records so far, and we're an independent label.

I have never made a cent off a record in my life. I have never recouped enough, and I never sold enough.

Selling music doesn't make that much money.

If you are a musician who has released albums, it would perhaps be morbidly interesting to know how much you would be owed if everyone who now has your music had actually bought your record.

If I had to live on record sales, I'd be pushing up the daisies.

My biggest frustration is the lack of scale in the music industry. The fact that no one has sold 100 million copies of an album is frustrating.

There's no money in music. I know that. I think the whole world should know that.

What people don't realize is that the initial sales of an album isn't where the bulk of your returns come from. It happens over time, sitting in the catalog, picking up commercials, getting included on packages here and there - there's years and years of pipeline money that goes on. That's where real money comes from - building that body of work.

Every project might only sell like 30 to 50,000, but I mean, I'm getting seven, eight dollars every CD. I make more money per record than an artist on a major label - I can definitely say that.

When you go pick out my album, the money actually comes to me and my company directly.

When I got my first check from 'Rack City,' I was like, 'Damn, I can make this much money making beats?'

I drop free music because I want people to know I'm still working. I want people to know I'm working and making my money independently. I don't want to charge for a mixtape; I'd rather charge for an album and really give something to my fans.