Quotes About Music

My music had roots which I'd dug up from my own childhood, musical roots buried in the darkest soil.

Music has been my real solace. And that's why I play music. And that's why I'm so determined, or have been so determined to pursue what I wanted to do, come what may.

I was in rehab for nine months, and I needed some solace and distraction. I was in town one day and I sort of stumbled into a jazz jam session, and kept going back.

The most rewarding thing for someone like me is for someone else to find solace through my music.

Music was my solace, my refuge.

Music's always been at the heart of Apple. It's deep in our DNA. We've sold Macs to musicians since the beginning of Macs.

In 20 years I had sold more records for RCA than any artist except Elvis Presley.

My best country record only sold 200,000 copies.

'If I Can Dream' is my all-time favorite Elvis song. It was a big record, but not as big as it could have been. It was one of those records where you'd think it sold 10 billion copies, but it didn't.

Wynton told us that Miles sold out, just wanted to make more money, just wanted to sell more records. I don't believe that Miles sold out but I'm not in a position to say.

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

Never hate a song that's sold a half million copies.

Marilyn Monroe never sold a platinum album. And more people know my music than what I look like.

I think that commercials can really ruin a song. You know that the person sold the song for a good deal of money, and that was the tradeoff. But, music and picture can marry in a beautiful way, and the reverse also.

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

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

I never sold out. I never made an album to buy a house.

When I first heard Ray Charles, he was a flop artist on a small label in California. He hadn't sold any records. And I bought his contract for $2,500.

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.

How could they call him wacko? He's sold more records than anybody in history.

I think right now, you've seen these artists pop up over the last decade who've flirted with branching together a lot of different kinds of music. Some of them have been huge, and sold millions of records. And I think over time it's become a little bit of what the industry can be.

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.

Contemporary bands often will do tour-only releases pressed and sold only in Australia. Crikey!

Shows have been sold out. It's overwhelming, you know. I had no idea what to expect with this new sound and everything and just to see so many people just come out and embrace it, it's overwhelming.