Georgie Fame Quotes

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

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

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

I know acts and I'm not going to name names but these people sold ten million copies the first time and the second album sells three million and it's considered a failure and they're dropped and that's really a shame.

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.

Eventually, when I sell enough units, as they say in the record business, I will stop touring. I'll concentrate on what I like to do... stay in the studio.

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.

The 'Frampton' album sold better than all of the other solo records that I'd had, put together. It was over 300,000 copies, so that was a good signal that we were poised for my first gold record.

I don't really sell many records.

I was working with Bill Graham management at the time and it was obvious to everyone concerned that albums like Open Fire, while they were good for me creatively, were not going to be commercially successful.

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

I guess I've been making records since I was 16, and even when 50 people bought them, I thought that was amazing.

First of all, I've been having a wonderful run of luck with cover albums, songs I didn't write. I had five pop cover albums and two Christmas albums, and they were all very successful.

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

When I made my first album, there was no indication that anybody other than my parents were going to buy it.

I would be a huge hypocrite if I didn't tell you that at one time in my life I thought the way that you made music was you got on a major label and you got famous.

If we could sell 100,000 units every album, that would rock. We'd have a big cult following, we'd have a built-in fanbase so we could pretty much play anywhere, people would show up and rock out.

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

Chart numbers can be deceiving. An album doesn't have to sell that much these days to show up really high on the charts.

When I do an album I try to find a producer that's excited about something that they want me to sing, and I check with the record company to find out what they think they can sell - which is their No. 1 priority.

But I remember we sold nearly 18,000 records in one day.

We won a contest at the teen fair in Vancouver and the first prize was a recording contract and we recorded at a radio station on the stairway, and we did a record and it got put out.

I mean in recent years, I think you've only got to sell thirty or forty thousand to get a #1.

I'm gonna be honest. I don't care about much. I care about people liking my music. I made it very far without nothing being on radio.