Johnny Mathis Quotes

Our managers hadn't had that kind of success - the record company hadn't, we hadn't - and the feeling was that the next record had to be even bigger, and if it wasn't it would be some kind of failure.

My original idea was to produce and not make records myself.

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

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 single is really quick, man. You can get it out, and in two months have it on your merch table. And albums can take a really long time. But when you get done with an album, it's a lot more fulfilling.

Our first record, 'Huey Lewis And The News', was seen by no one - it sold 25 copies.

I'm working on my new album right now. Hopefully to get that out at the top of 2005, January 2005.

My relationship with Music Row has always been, from my end, optimistic and hopeful that there is more than one way to approach the writing, recording, and marketing of an album.

I wanted to produce Nancy LaMott's albums, so I created my own record company.

What my whole object was is not to really sell records. I was trying to sell songs.

I've always wanted to produce a whole album for an artist.

I guess if I'd have more of a producer attitude, maybe I'd sell more records. But I'm basically a songwriter.

Anything can wait for a hit record. That, after all, is what everyone wants at the end of the day.

That was American Recordings. I said, I like the name, maybe it'd be OK. So I said, I'd like to meet the guy [Rick Rubin ].I'd like for him to tell me what he can do with me that they're not doing now.

You need a platform upon which to release an orchestral record, otherwise it's just going to be an obscurity.

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

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.

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.

If you're part of a record company, you're a manufactured product. It doesn't mean that you're not talented.

Radio is aimed at the 30-year-old market, so you have to have great music and appeal to get that age group. And you need a record company to believe in you. It's like a bit of the perfect storm.

And you have a record company behind it, this is a key too, you need people to fight for your records, at least a little bit. So if you have a great song, it's catchy, and you've got a little bit of help, I think that's all you need. But there hasn't been that in music.

Motown's policy was to build one act at a time or their favorites.

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.

I had always thought of starting my own record company. I haven't regretted the decision - yet!

I'm confident being at Universal, which is a great home for me, 'cause they understand what I'm trying to do.