#singles

With The Guess Who, it took us fifty-something singles before we had hits. ↗

— Randy Bachman

#guess #had #hits #singles #took

Envy, like the worm, never runs but to the fairest fruit; like a cunning bloodhound, it singles out the fattest deer in the flock. ↗

— Francis Beaumont

#deer #envy #fairest #fattest #flock

There's the famous thing that the A&R man from the record company is supposed to do: He's supposed to come into the studio and listen to the songs you've been recording and then say, 'Guys, I don't hear any singles.' And then everybody falls into a terrible depression because you have to write one. ↗

— Jarvis Cocker

#any #because #been #come #company

They've got the singles and some people have burnt them from different web sites and stuff. So it was something that we talked about for a long, long time, and I just wanted to make sure that this remix album to be really special. ↗

— Deborah Cox

#album #burnt #different #got #i

My audience is the baby-boomers, the bulk of the population. This is also a group that is being ignored by most record companies because they're not the Top 40 hit singles market. They forget these people still listen to music. ↗

— Helen Reddy

#audience #because #being #being ignored #bulk

I'm a bit of a nerd, I wouldn't mind working in a shop selling records, or having a radio show where I could play obscure singles. ↗

— Bjork

#could #having #i #mind #nerd

Obviously, the hit singles get the biggest reaction - that's when you can see people really getting excited. ↗

— Kathy Valentine

#excited #get #getting #hit #obviously

I grew up in the day when the Beatles sold 1 million singles in a week. And all you've got to do now is sell about 10,000 singles and you're in the charts. ↗

— Phil Collins

#beatles #charts #day #got #grew