Vivienne Westwood Quotes

England's a small nation, and the pop music industry is built on fashion.

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

The making of music is profoundly affected by the market.

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

The 'rock world' is a lot smaller than it used to be. It's doing a lot less things than it used to be. From Woodstock back in the day and Rage Against the Machine, no one sells millions of records anymore.

Music is the one part of the entertainment business where you can't fool anybody into buying a record.

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.

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.

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

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

As a producer putting up music, I wasn't dropping a project to do this much numbers or make this amount of money, I really just dropped a project for the streets and the culture of music.

I didn't realize how polarized an industry like music can be.

There is no everlasting power in the music of today. Everyone is running after record sales.

I'm not a household word. The climate for original music is always a bit difficult.

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

I become more seasoned, it's less interesting to try and compete in the pop market.

Music changes every three months. There's always new artists coming out. There's always new sounds. There is always a new hit coming out. You gotta stay relevant as much as you can and feed your fans as much as you can.

Well it's because the record companies are pumping away with their commercial stuff. I think it's a shame.

People say, 'How's the record doing?' In the old days you'd say, 'We're at 600,000, it's doing great.' You don't say those things anymore. Those numbers are gone.

There were a lot of times where there was a great deal of fodder recorded and played, because there was a market for it - just as there is today. And there were more bad bands than there were good bands - I think that should always be remembered.

D.C. is one my largest audiences. They buy tons of records of mine in Washington, D.C.

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.

'Vinyl' is a good look at the music industry. The script was honest.

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.

When I first started recording, I was told by all of the experts in the business that the kind of music that I was doing was never going to sell. That disco was the coming thing and it was going to take over and what I was interested in was a minor sideline.