Steven Patrick Morrissey Quotes

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.

I don't get the airplay that one in my position deserves. 'Twist and Shout' gets more airplay than 'The Twist,' and that's not right.

We used to call it recurrent airplay when someone had a hit.

Now so many really good groups who have had a first major hit can't get a deal for a second one.

I would be a huge hypocrite if I didn't tell you that at one time in my life I thought the way that you made music was you got on a major label and you got famous.

I'm not an artist that has a big, huge radio record that's going to be on BET.

How does a band like System of a Down get big?

Unless I've got Katy Perry on the cover of my CD, it's going to be tough to sell a lot of records.

MTV made a huge impact. Heavy rotation took you from selling 1m albums to 20m albums, and that meant a lot of dough.

In the '80s, the way radio was programmed, if you didn't have a hit record you weren't going to be able to make any more records. That was it, period.

I don't want to be a small-time, independent, successful rapper.

'Dream Police' was in the can and ready to go when 'Budokan' started taking off worldwide, sales-wise.

If a new artist wants to put out some sort of off-the-wall, crazy deep ballad about the sun or whatever, it might be hard to get traction. It's so much easier for someone established to put out a really heartfelt, deep song and get it played in radio.

My songs were already a hit track with over 100 million views/comments and multi-hundred thousand downloads on online websites before coming to Bollywood.

Now that I'm with RCA, they were able to get radio on board, and it's just really awesome to see their support and 'What Ifs' going to No. 1.

You never think your song's gonna be on the radio. Until it is.

Success happened for me when I dropped my first major label album for Def Jam, 'Live From The Underground.'

I put out my first song, 'The Other,' in 2015 just on Soundcloud. It was always my most popular song but never really went far in a mainstream way. Then, a couple years after it came out, I watched it go from 8 million to, like, 100 million.

There was a time when radio stations wouldn't play Gaga's music because it was considered dance. Outside of live performances, the Internet became our primary tool to help people discover her music.

I really want my music to go mainstream.

It was so simple in the old days. You put out an album, people promoted it, it got in the charts, and you had a hit.

I can work my butt off and create an album that's wonderful, but if it's never played and never given the outlet, it won't succeed.

It's called 'I Wanna Thank You,' and I'm encouraging everybody out there to blog, Tweet, Facebook, anything about it. Let's sign a petition. The petition is called 'Busta Rhymes Make 'I Wanna Thank You' Your First Single.'

When I put out 'Video Games' in May 2011, it was a 5:25-minute love song; I was surprised when a lot of people said they were listening to it. I was surprised when it went to the radio, without me even knowing how something like that even happens!

A lot of people see a Nissan ad and they see a finished product in a record store or on iTunes and that's the face of the band.