"A record co. is just a vehicle for public appearances." — Mickey Gilley

My only failure was the restaurant in Myrtle Beach. I kept it open for four years. It was in a tourist town, it was only busy four and half, five months of the year. But the bills kept coming all year.

If you're not on a major label today, you're not gonna get played. They've got the market sewed up.

All I have to concentrate on is my performing.

'Cause I can make more money going in and doing my recordings and selling them through my entities that I have, rather than going to a record co. and them release a record and pay me 5 percent of what they make off it.

It's the same with the ballplayers. Babe Ruth spent a lot, too and the ballplayers make a lot more money now.

If I cut an album now and sell it for ten bucks, I can put seven dollars and fifty cents in my pocket.

Well, I got people that help me with the restaurant. I don't have to be at the restaurant 24 hours a day.

I have the restaurant, too. I serve Southwest, barbecue.

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A record co. is just a vehicle for public appearances.