(I pinched this from Dr Hook *) My view is that if I were to sell a million copies of an album in the UK - that's a Madonna level of sales - then there would still be 60 million people in this country who didn't give a shit. I'd much rather make music that I really like, but only sells half a dozen copies, than make music that I hate, but sells millions. And as much as I dislike Gene Simmons, during the first series of "Rock School" he said something like "you're gonna hear people say 'no' a hundred times more than you're gonna hear them say 'yes'".
(* original Dr Hook story: They had their first US number 1 single, and had a band meeting to discuss how they were going to handle it. They came to the conclusion that even if they had 50 consecutive US #1's, there were still 900 million people in China who didn't care. It's recounted in more detail in the 1st comment here http://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2008/10/dr-hook-when-youre-in-love-with-a-beautiful-woman/)
― black jeans stained by (snoball), Sunday, 28 March 2010 10:15 (fifteen years ago)