Gabrielle Aplin Quotes

I want to sell out arenas and sell millions of records.

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

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.

I have a fan base. I've sold a million albums in country music. I've got fans out there who love my music and would like to hear more.

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

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 was kicked off a record label and didn't get picked up again. It was devastating at first because I thought, 'Oh my God. My career is over. What's gonna happen? What am I going to do?' Once I got that I could have a career, a very good career, without having a hit record, then I changed.

I'm in a very good place to make records. Needing to make money off music is very dangerous.

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.

Now so many really good groups who have had a first major hit can't get a deal for a second one.

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.

There's a big difference between doing the odd gig and actually having a record out and your name being on the ticket.

Actually, we got signed in November of 2000 with Dreamworks which is the most amazing label. We have friends on other labels and though we are not selling millions of records, yet, they treat us with tons of respect and give us some very good guidance.

I really just dabble in music; I really just did a few albums for my fans.

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.

It's a cruel, heartless world out there in commercial rock 'n' roll, and when you take as much time off as we did, eight years, booking agents don't know if you'll draw.

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

The record companies didn't want 'Stony Road,' and it ended up being a gold album. They didn't want 'Blue Guitars,' and we did 165,000 books.

People just want the hottest records. It's not really about all the names attached to the project. It's about the work.

Music reality shows are a good thing, especially for those seeking a career in music.

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

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

I was signed to A&M, I was signed to Lou Adler, who had a company within a company, which was A&M Records, and everything - James Taylor, Rita Coolidge, Carole King - I worked on all of that stuff.

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