Dionne Warwick Quotes

I have an eclectic pallet of music that I listen to. It depends on my mood.

Country radio went through a time where they were trying to pigeonhole everybody, and trying to make the gap really narrow, and I think that they've opened that up a little bit.

And looking at today's music scene, I think it's cool that there are a lot of consumers and fans not limited by what radio and the record companies tell them to buy.

I like kind of varied songs, not just the same song all the time. And I thought things like 'Too Sentimental' is a different thing for us, but it works and we love the way they all came out. There's definitely varied songs on there.

I don't like what the radio plays for the most part.

Entertainment isn't just based on the very structured syndrome of European popular music, and it's great that there are so many thousands of people who are of the same opinion.

A lot of times, songs can blend together on the radio because there's so many great songs out there.

In Presley's time, you didn't dare not to be a fan of his, because you were part of a club. Now you can say I prefer Billy Joel or Tina Turner or someone else. It's all fractionalized.

I have some songs on 'Tha Carter V,' but if I hear a song five times, I don't like it no more.

People don't want to hear the same song 12 times in a row on an album.

One reason I rarely listen to radio is they don't play our music much.

You can't just play a house set for four hours at the Sheraton. You have to be creative and throw in some jazz, some Latin music, and really mix it up.

Ever since Apple Music, Spotify, and all of those things came around, we can choose whatever we want to listen to. Before then, it was all controlled, but now, everybody listens to everything.

I just never really though you could or couldn't listen to a certain type of music.

You listen to the radio and all the songs sound the same, from 8 in the morning to 12.

If you just focus on making singles, you lose the personality of the record. Because everything is not meant to go to radio.

Radio in the U.K. is so formulaic. You've got commercial stations who play the same 20 songs all day.

Kids don't want to hear the same record. There are a hundred million bands that they could listen to; you want to give them something that they've never heard before.

I'm into a lot of different types of music - pretty much everything from blue grass to jazz to dub step to metal to indie experimental and progressive.

I'm doing this record called 'Epicloud.' Over the course of the full record, there's sort of new agey stuff, jazzy stuff, really heavy stuff. We basically cover the gamut.

I'm all for a good slow song and I love all different kinds of music.

I love the blues. I love rock. I love classic rock. I love country. All types of music I can appreciate.

I try to listen to as much different music as possible - I've always got music blasting in my ears!

There are so many times I turn on the radio, and I hear a guy, and I have no idea who it is because it sounds like four other people.

In the 80s, I remember the radio stations would play everything from rock to rap.