Michael Rapino Quotes

As for the music business itself, the key things have not changed that much. It operates like any business and money still keeps things moving.

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

It's always the music first for me. But if the music isn't selling, there isn't gonna be no business. So you gotta make sure music is always the first priority.

I enjoy touring. I enjoy recording the music, I enjoy dreaming it and I enjoy performing it. I also definitely enjoy selling it, because I like to eat.

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

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

People got to know us from hearing us live because there wasn't much publicity or radio airplay for a long time.

Nobody sells records any more, and the only way you can actually do anything is to go out and play live.

I don't really sell many records.

The record business has always mystified me. Sometimes there are reasons why things sell or don't sell that can't be understood by mere mortals.

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

If your music is great, you will have fans, not because you have spent time chatting on social media.

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.

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.

Back in the day people made music to go on tour. They didn't make music to make a video.

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

When radio stations started playing music the record companies started suing radio stations. They thought now that people could listen to music for free, who would want to buy a record in a record shop? But I think we all agree that radio stations are good stuff.

I've always treated the music business as a business.

I can't immediately get all this coverage when my record comes out. The way I sell gold and platinum records is by being on the road.

Americans work a long away ahead of themselves because of the size of the place. To make any impact at all you have to promote yourself with live performances ages before a release.

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

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

If your album sells, that's cool, more people find out about you, more people get turned on to what we're really about-which is a live rock and roll band.

Being my own boss and working inside an industry that's not really an industry, I need to keep busy and keep working. The only way to make money in music - unless you're managing someone - is to tour, and even that depends on where you are at.

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