Jon Crosby Quotes

I guess the bottom line is I don't make music that is consumed en masse.

I want my music to be really big. I have no interest in DIY Brooklyn; I don't want to be a small indie band.

We never said we were hard-core or that we didn't want our music crossing over or being popular.

Pop music has always been about the mainstream and what appeals to the public.

Being shoved into the top-40 scene was an unusual experience. It was great I'd become accessible to a huge audience but not terribly fulfilling.

Popularity has everything to do with business and nothing to do with music.

A lot of bad music sells a million copies; I don't think it's a good litmus test for whether things are going well.

I hate fame. There's this assumption that everyone wants it - that by being a musician, I've signed up for it at some point. But personally, what I signed up for is sharing my music. I've always said I'd rather have four No. 10 songs than one No. 1 hit.

Selling millions of albums is a sign you've infiltrated the culture.

Even the bands I dig don't have a history of attaining mass consumption.

There's something extraordinary about selling millions and millions of albums.

We don't want it to be obscure music. We're not trying to be indie. We want to be popular.

If kids say I'm just a gospel rapper, I won't be able to get in their cars.

Every song a hit, every hit a smack!

Pop is the most competitive form of music there is. You are always fighting to be adopted and accepted by the masses, and it's always shifting.

The way Aventura became successful was so weird. We didn't have a major label. They say everything has a reason, but it's not easy to find. The only thing that was right was the music.

I think you have a crossover when you are known to a wider audience and a different market. I've been able to sell out stadiums all over the world by doing my music. I'm lucky to be in that list without having done an official crossover. Now, will you hear me doing a little bit of R&B? Sure.

I never, in anything I've ever done, tried to get you to like it. I was never going to succeed at that. That's not the way most entertainment is made. Most entertainment is trying to get you. It's tested, like toothpaste.

We were a very popular live band in London, packing in 6,000 people a night, and the record companies that came after us wanted us to be the flavor of the month.

I would hope to have some of the same audience that Oprah has earned. And I would love to earn that, as well.

I want to be commercial. I'm never the person who says, 'I don't care if people don't see my movies.' I always want people to see my movies.

I don't believe that to be mainstream you have to be foolish. I don't think you have to be a buffoon to sell. I think you can be logical, aesthetic and still work within the mainstream format.

I don't think you're selling out by allowing the masses to love your art. The only curse is that, when you get so big, sometimes people forget to look at the music.

One has to create music with mass appeal and not something which is niche. With niche music, you will only go a small distance.

I had a style before I was signed, but now I'm developing my commercial sound as well as trying to strike a balance between authentic music and music that the masses will love.