Jimmy Page Quotes

It was hard to work and work and work and not get your music played on the radio.

When you have a song on the radio your career and your life changes maybe for the better and maybe for the not so good... depending on how it's going that day.

I didn't spend much time in America, which probably was a mistake. To someone else, having a number one in America would be enough to get them touring.

I play banjo, and in Britain, it's easy to get away with playing banjo because you don't often see it on U.K. stages. In America, people know when you're a good banjo player, so I was really nervous about playing out there. But we actually went down really well.

I didn't even think my music was good enough to get on the radio in Australia.

It's very, very exciting for me to hear my songs on the radio and to play shows and have people know the words.

Obviously, my label would want me to be on the radio all the time, but that's not my personal goal.

My goal is to get my music out to as many people as possible. That a song of mine is being played on the radio so far away from home really, really pushes me. It's everything I've dreamed of.

The Four Seasons was making me popular in Britain, but EMI America had no interest in making that happen in the States, so I just had a classical career there.

The music industry is saying, This is the format, and if you'll fit into this format, you can be on radio, and if radio will play you, MTV will expose you, and MTV will expose you, we'll sell records.

There's a band in the U.K. called Elbow. They're not that big in the U.S., but I think they're genius.

But I never had that commercial opportunity to be played on the radio, so how could I be popular?

I'd love to be a hit in Germany. I'm working on trying to get a gig as David Hasselhoff's opening act.

It was amazing to me that, all of a sudden, I was hearing my music on the radio and coming out of cars.

Radio continues to be the very best advertising music performers have. No one who ever grabbed a Grammy got there without radio.

With *NSYNC, we shopped our deal for a year in America, sang a capella in everybody's office, then moved to Germany for almost two years and became popular there. A guy representing a rock band came to our show in Budapest, saw 60,000 people get excited for a band from America that nobody in America knew, and told someone at RCA.

I went to America and got into a band, had success, had hits in Australia.

With every record I put out, I got a bit more success, a bigger following in cities I would play in, and occasionally a bit of radio play.

There's a lot of people out there who have seen us once somewhere in a pub or heard our songs late night on radio. We'd done four years of it before we'd even released a single. It's put us in good stead.

Having a first single is such a great opportunity for any artist... I'm very appreciative of the support country radio's given 'Could It Be.'

I made a dollar a day sweeping a laundry out. Then we made a record that was number two in Los Angeles. We got so excited hearing it on the radio that Carl threw up.

Countries separated by half the globe do not present the natural conditions for being under one government, or even members of one federation.

It's definitely been a long, long... long, long, long, long, long journey since I was selling burnt CD's out of my backpack in downtown Oakland.

I think 'Interscope' always puts the artist first, and they're focusing on these artists' development. I felt like that was a part of my career that I kind of needed to focus on after having come from the radio and getting exposure that way. I wanted to grow my brand and grow my fanbase, and they have proven to be the best fit for that.

After struggling for so long in the industry and writing so many failed songs and hearing 'no' for so long - I'm so grateful every time I hear a song that I was a part of on the radio.