Gabby Barrett Quotes

I mean that'd be great if we could continue to be staples of alt-rock radio. I don't take that for granted.

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

It's always a positive when radio is playing your music and fans are responding.

Before, I was more concerned with getting on the radio, like many young artists.

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!

Some musicians like to decorate their walls with discs saying: '1 million records sold in America.' I prefer to put up discs marking sales in lesser-known countries.

But MTV relishes its vestigial role as a star maker, so every year it puts all its clout into making the VMAs the biggest, splashiest, loudest show-biz extravaganza of the year, honoring all this music for existing, after a year of paying barely any attention to it.

I think when you put a new record out, everyone has a song or two that they feel people will be moved by so much that radio will be forced to play it.

Even though I am signed to an American label, I want Australia to fall in love with my music because if it doesn't work here, it won't work anywhere.

I was really amazed when I started hearing 'Songbird' on the radio. I couldn't believe that the record company promotion department had actually convinced radio music directors to play it -because there wasn't anything like it on the radio at the time.

Music is always occurring. It is just a matter of marketing, attention, and many other factors, that determines whether people will hear these songs or not.

It doesn't matter how good you are as a band or how good your music may be; if the fans aren't supporting it and buying your music, it's hard to make it.

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

We were overwhelmed by how much the first album connected with people, but I wouldn't put us in the 'pop star' realm.

I've always wanted to have one of those hits on the radio, but we haven't really been able to crack that code.

The power of a label and radio and a booking agency and all that - you never know until you experience it the first time, but being able to have a song on radio, but then go play a show for people that have heard the song on radio, and having it sung back to you, is - I don't know how to describe it.

I really believed that my songs were good enough for the whole world to listen to. I had fans from America or the U.K. who would be like, 'Oh my God, I love your music'.

I was doing sold-out shows before I got radio play.

Marilyn Monroe never sold a platinum album. And more people know my music than what I look like.

I don't want to put my fate in country music fans; I'm too stubborn.

I just want to make music, I don't want people to talk about me. All I've ever wanted to do was sing. I don't want to be a celebrity. I don't want to be in people's faces, you know, constantly on covers of magazine that I haven't even known I'm on.

We were excited when we sold our first 10 records. I always felt that if we could get the music out there, and if people became accustomed to it, then a substantial number of them would enjoy it.

I never dreamt of being a musician for my livelihood. I certainly never would have wanted to be in the business that I'm in, meaning the fame and the glory, the glitter, the rock star, the famous part.

There is a lot of music in the world that I love that does not always get the appropriate exposure.

A lot of people think I came out of nowhere. When you start as a songwriter, nobody knows who you are. I met the guy who wrote 'Yeah' by Usher, which was a huge smash, and nobody knew who he was.