Benji Madden Quotes

I don't need a sensationalized headline to sell music or to bring attention to my music. It's the music and it's always been about the music.

It's a bummer sometimes but I always believe that great bands and great music always prevail.

I'm so thankful for 'Backseat' because it's doing so much. It's almost at two million listens on Spotify. It's changed my life. It was the song that Dreamville really pushed and they just really made it explode, and I'm just so thankful.

Usually when my music drops, I can go to my hood, I can hear people playing it. Now it comes from performing it, people knowing it and stuff. It's crazy!

A lot of people were getting million-dollar deals from music I felt was trash, because their videos were going viral. I wanted to put out music that had soul, because that's what was missing.

I think when you have one song that does really well, people love you from that song, or they hate you from that song.

I don't want to put my fate in country music fans; I'm too stubborn.

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

Music is for people. The word 'pop' is simply short for popular. It means that people like it. I'm just a normal jerk who happens to make music. As long as my brain and fingers work, I'm cool.

I have seen more bad songs make it because of MTV than good ones that haven't.

I think if we keep on doing good music and people like us and they buy the magazine because we are in the magazine then they cant basically hate us hopefully.

Even though I am signed to an American label, I want Australia to fall in love with my music because if it doesn't work here, it won't work anywhere.

I once wrote on my MySpace profile that music is never authentic. It was a reaction to constantly reading the word 'authentic' in connection with bands. But what does that mean? A baby crying after being pushed out of its mother's womb, now that's what I'd call authentic.

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

It doesn't matter how good you are as a band or how good your music may be; if the fans aren't supporting it and buying your music, it's hard to make it.

If you're making music, you must want to turn other people on to it, whether you're number one in the charts or number 60. I don't know, that's a commercial thing, but just the fact that other people like you... there's no point in making music, otherwise. Otherwise, you might as well make it in your bedroom and leave it there.

When I put out a record or single I don't allow myself to set up expectations like, 'This song must be a number one hit. Its got to sell X amount of records.'

If you look at Adele, the reason she did so well was she created great music. It wasn't about a clever marketing trick.

I would love the record industry to be more receptive to my music but all they are interested in is style over content.

When you're a songwriter, you don't have control over which songs get heard and which ones don't.

Priyanka and Red One made a great record that we think will stand on its own. People won't buy the music just because she is who she is. We want them to buy it because it's good.

You don't really need a lot of hype and to be famous to sell songs.

I want to work very hard on music, put out a lot of nice product - good quality product - and then just help people out, like a Gucci Mane, like a Future... like a Prince, like a Michael Jackson.

I guess if you make quality music then it has a longevity and it will find its place.

The only way to have longevity is to have good songs.