“A lot of my colleagues just don't really realize that they have to work in order to get the interest of an audience, especially with young kids, especially because it [classical music] is not that popular. You don't see it on TV, you don't hear it on radio, so you really gotta put an effort into promoting classical music.” KidsYoungOrderInterestRealizingEffortAudienceTvsMusic IsRadioColleaguesPromotingClassical Music Author:David Garrett
“I’m a B-boy at heart. I still like rhyming. It’s just the radio game is like Chinese arithmetic. It’s hard to know what nuts to crack. But I still love music, been dropping music. Never stopped really.” KnowsHeartStillsHardGamesBoysMusic IsRadioChineseCracksNutsDroppingMusic LoveArithmeticRhyming Author:Ice Cube
“I could turn on my radio in the morning when I was getting dressed for school and hear Frank Sinatra and Duke Ellington and Benny Goodman and think this is the music. Now that music is art. Ellington is art. At that time it was just what you heard on the radio. Cole Porter was just a guy who wrote pretty songs and Billie Holliday would sing them.” ThinkingArtSchoolGuySongTurnsMorningHeardMusic IsRadioFrankTurn-onDukesGetting DressedGoodman Author:Woody Allen
“I'm not crazy about how sort of homogenized pop music become. It used to be much more diverse. Maybe it's just what's played on the radio sounds very much the same.” UsedSoundCrazyMusic IsRadioPopsUsed To BeDiversePop Music Author:Madonna Ciccone
“People are not even going to have time to listen to radio in their cars because they are going to be talking on their phones or twittering, or BBM'ing. So I feel like the only time people are going to hear music is when your phone rings, so that's the whole market I'm going after.” PeopleFeelsWholeTalkingCarMusic IsPhonesRadioRingsOnly Time Author:Spencer Pratt
“If you took any of my radio shows and you took the music out of them, they wouldn't be remotely the same thing. Music is really important.” IfsImportantShowsMusic IsRadio Author:Joe Frank
“You have to get past the idea that music has to be one thing. To be alive in America is to hear all kinds of music constantly: radio, records, churches, cats on the street, everywhere music. And with records, the whole history of music is open to everyone who wants to hear it.” WantKindIdeasWholeAmericaPastChurchRecordsAliveOne ThingStreetsMusic IsCatRadioAll KindsHistory Of Music Author:Jerry Garcia
“Folk music has a sort of a bubbling-under quality. The stream runs through the cultural consciousness, and whether or not it's on the radio is not the issue. Folk music is always there.” RunningConsciousnessQualityIssuesMusic IsFolksRadioStreamsFolk Music Author:Mary Travers
“I think Badfinger was the epitome of that type of music before the power pop term was coined. 'No Matter What" is always gonna be a great song on the radio. There?s probably two or three others off their records that are as cool like 'Day After Day'.” ThinkingTwoMatterSongThreeTermRecordsTypeMusic IsNo Matter WhatRadioPopsEpitome Author:Robin Zander
“Rock & roll seemed to just come to us, on the radio and in the record stores. It became our music. . . But then we uncovered another, deeper level, the history behind rock and R&B, the music behind our music. All roads led to the source, which was the blues.” LevelsBehindsRecordsRocksSourceMusic IsRadioDeeperStoresRecord Stores Author:Martin Scorsese
“Unfortunately, as far as the music is concerned, what defines relevance is whether you are on the radio or whether you are on the cover of a magazine or whether you're winning MTV awards, and so on and so forth.” WinningMusic IsConcernedRadioMagazinesAwardsRelevanceMtv Author:Larry Mullen, Jr.
“I started playing guitar at the age of 8 or 9 years. Very early, and I was like already into pop music and was just trying to copy what I heard on the radio. And at a very early age I started experimenting with old tape recorders from my parents. I was 11 or 12 at that time and then when I was like 14 or 15 I had a punk band. I made all the classic rock musician's evolutions and then in the early nineties I bought my first sampler and that is how I got into electronic music, because I was able to produce it on my own. That was quite a relief.” TryingYearsFirstsMadeAgeAbleParentMy OwnHeardRocksProduceEvolutionBandMusicianMusic IsGuitarRadioPopsClassicReliefCopiesPunkTapePop MusicRock MusicElectronic MusicRecordersPlaying GuitarClassic RockRock Musicians Author:Christian Fennesz
“Yes, anyone can log onto your "anonymous" band's MySpace page and hear the music. So, in theory you have gotten your music in front of 5 billion people. The other thing is that something has to cause them to go to those bands MySpace page, and it's that reliance on taste makers or radio, that is still very much a part of how music is sold and marketed.” PeopleStillsCausesFrontsTheoryTasteBandMusic IsPagesRadioBillionsMakersReliance Author:Chris Cain
“The way I listen to music goes in waves depending on a lot of things. How busy I am, if I'm in between composition projects, if I'm starting a new project. So, the only time I listen to the radio for music is with my daughter's when I'm driving them to school, or driving them somewhere.” IfsWaySchoolProjectsMusic IsDaughterBusyStartingWaveRadioDrivingMy DaughterCompositionOnly TimeListening To MusicNew Projects Author:Tod Machover
“I think the old school, back in the day, 10 to 15 years ago in music, is like you launch one single and you just let that ride out. Right now, you've got folks like Chris Brown, he just won't let up, he's got mixtape after mixtape, they're playing songs on the radio from the mixtape and then he's got songs on the album and videos and he's got remixes he's jumping on.” ThinkingYearsSchoolSongLike YouRight NowMusic IsYears AgoFolksRadioAlbumsVideoBrownJumpingOld SchoolBack In The DayRemixMixtapes Author:Tyrese Gibson
“You know, the radio never wanted you to speak about anything, so the music is kinda influenced by the hands of the radio which wants to homogenize it and dilute it and sanitize it. And for the most part, nobody's takin' the time to seek out the cats that are still tryin' to talk, so they have a difficult time being heard.” KnowsWantStillsHandsWantedSpeakDifficultHeardMusic IsCatRadioDifficult Times Author:Ice T
“Of course, music is still a passion for me, and my new sort of career doing radio is also a passion, but definitely to be able to put a smile on someone's face. Or just waking up every day, trying to figure out how I can change a person's life for the better.” TryingPersonsStillsI CanAbleFacesPassionCoursesCareersFiguresMusic IsWake UpRadioWaking Author:Raheem Devaughn
“Because U.K. artists aren't compensated when their music is played on U.S. radio stations, U.S. artists aren't compensated when their records are played on U.K. stations based on the fact that there's no reciprocity. If that income came in, our artists would be paying income taxes on it. So if we can get a lot of policy on the radar, that may have some positive influence.” IfsMayFactsWould BeArtistRecordsInfluencePolicyTaxesMusic IsRadioIncomeStationsIncome TaxReciprocityRadarRadio StationsPositive Influence Author:Neil Portnow