Stone Gossard Quotes

I'd love to get played on the radio, but it just doesn't happen.

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.

I figured the songs wouldn't make much of a splash. I didn't think 'Take Me To Church' would play on the radio or get in the charts, and I didn't think about dealing with a global audience.

I think it's really cool when any of your songs play on the radio for the first time.

I don't want to put out a CD of album songs. I'm gunning for every song to be a single.

We were number one most added at radio, when the single came out and that's much different. It took like eight months for any radio to happen on the first record, so a lot more support has happened right out of the box.

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!

Maybe 'Can't Stop Feeling' and 'Turn It On' we'll just release as singles. It's a thing The Beatles used to do which I really loved, the idea of releasing something as a single completely on its own.

Bands that say they don't care about how their records sell are liars.

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.

The whole time after you record an album, you're just waiting for the release date. You're waiting for fans to hear it and stuff.

On our studio album 'Fly From Here' in 2011, we spent a year and a half promoting that around the world.

There was a report that used to come out back in those days, I don't know if it was the Gavin Report or something like that. And they said, no matter what McGuire comes out with next, we're not gonna play it.

Any album that I ever put out I'm going to send it to country radio first.

I just want to keep saturating the market and radio with as many hit records as I can.

I've always said that if you have songs on the radio and get played, you've got to have a tour to support that.

When the first record came out, I'd go down to radio stations pretty much every day to get the record played, and I would walk in and they'd tell us how much they loved the record, but they weren't sure how much they could play it because they were already playing a girl.

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.

If you want to put out a million CDs and sell them and get them played on the radio, and even videos, or whatever, if that still exists, that kind of muscle can only come from a label like Columbia.

It's not essential for me to have a big debut week; it's not essential for me to have big radio records.

I wouldn't say that 'Wowee Zowee' was a success. We probably had a chance, had I focused a little more, to capitalize on the attention the band got for 'Crooked Rain.'

There are a lot of dynamics and a lot of politics that go into records and getting played on the radio.

A lot of true Jamaican artists don't understand the importance of radio so tend not to tap into that as a result.

With pop songs, they usually have a three-month roll out.