Susannah Cahalan Quotes

If I opened a record store, it wouldn't be all punk rock and esoterica.

I go to the local record store to buy my albums.

Back in the '90s, if you did mail order in music, you could make a good living doing it if you could hustle.

I'm not a household word. The climate for original music is always a bit difficult.

I have very much enjoyed being in the music business in different roles through five different decades.

I have hundreds and hundreds of people from Brazil, Chile, Columbia and Argentina, every day, buying my music and telling me about it online.

I think there is a big difference between the music business and music. And my relationship is to music, not music business. I think the business will keep changing, but music won't. Music will be there.

If people stop being interested, it's because you haven't written a good enough album. Music will always be the most powerful thing. It doesn't matter what record labels or journalists say. It's the song.

Rock and roll music - people want records. For me, it's the whole thing - the package. I don't get satisfaction from buying an MP3.

When I first started recording, I was told by all of the experts in the business that the kind of music that I was doing was never going to sell. That disco was the coming thing and it was going to take over and what I was interested in was a minor sideline.

As long as someone wants to hear my music, I don't care if it's a ringtone or the album or whatever.

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

I'm making music for the people. If y'all love the music, y'all gonna buy the music.

It used to be that creative music was most of the music that you heard back in the '30s and '40s, and now it's like 3 percent. So, its kind of a struggle getttin' it out there.

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.

The only thing I've ever offered the public is some music. If they like the music, that's great. Turn on the radio. If they don't like it, switch it off.

There's always a market for music.

We're incredibly excited to be launching Communion in America, where not only are there literally thousands of excellent musicians that we want to promote, but it's also a country full of passionate music fans that we want to feel part of the Communion experience. It's a massive deal for us to expand, and we cannot wait to get cracking.

One of my favorite things to do is sit around and listen to old records... You're forced to listen to the whole thing. And it's so cool digging through the bins trying to find them. I get giddy about records.

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

My father was interested in bringing reggae music to the entire world.

Really, I could care less if there's a Second Decade record.

It's always the music first for me. But if the music isn't selling, there isn't gonna be no business. So you gotta make sure music is always the first priority.

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

I write a lot of music in my time off and I compose most of the songs on guitar. I've actually gone into the studio and recorded a few things, but it's tough trying to sell a song. It's all about finding that hook, that melody.