Amazon.com isn't the same as going down an aisle. The same as record stores. You'll go for Billie Holiday, and you buy Gustav Mahler as you're going out the door.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Hopefully it will be possible to get all our other albums in American shops one day so if people are interested they can hear it but I'm hoping that people are going to be interested in what we are going to do, not just what we've done.
I think rock records tend to be very expensive.
At the end of the day, you sign a record deal and you understand where it could go if you had the right song.
No one really buys records anymore. You can look at sales and do that math real quick. Unfortunately, it's fast food in the music industry. People don't ingest full records anymore.
We are doing what Prince did. Everyone that comes to a show billed as An Evening with Journey will get our new CD. We figured that is our best store because they are our biggest fans.
My great hero is Billie Holiday, and I've always wanted to do an album of standards with a piano-led quartet.
The record companies are interested in the kind of sales they can get from the rock groups.
I've always considered music stores to be the graveyards of musicians.
Oh yeah - for sure - hardly a week doesn't go by when I don't hear something wonderful that someone has made in some low-budget situation, primarily with a view to selling a few hundred copies at their concerts.
As I've often said, you can shop online and find whatever you're looking for, but bookstores are where you find what you weren't looking for.