Alan Jackson Quotes

You play shows all over the country and hope that radio gets a chance to get out to see you, but that doesn't always happen like that.

If you really want a radio station to play your song, go to that radio station every day with that song in your hand and say, 'Please play it.'

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 also hope that with the assistance and expertise of Dome Records, that I will be able to further pierce the UK and European market. I really like playing there and I want to do more! I've found that the audiences get quite involved and really listen to what's happening.

People got to know us from hearing us live because there wasn't much publicity or radio airplay for a long time.

If we waited for a hit record to tour, we would never have toured.

A lot of artists feel it's not worth it to sign with a major label, because if you don't have a giganto hit, then you're not going to get a video made. You're not going to probably get much tour support. You're not going to get promotion. You're certainly not going to get a publicist who's going to pay much attention to you.

I constantly tour, even when I don't have a record out.

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 are certainly things labels can still provide that indie artists can't. They can pave the way to radio and pay big bucks for promotion.

We saw a need to develop a community for artists to get their music out to the masses. With MySpace, when they went out on tour, they could actually tour nationally. The band might have 20,000 friends on their list and send out a bulletin saying, 'I'm going to be in Austin on Tuesday night. Come see our show.'

Back in the day people made music to go on tour. They didn't make music to make a video.

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.

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

Americans work a long away ahead of themselves because of the size of the place. To make any impact at all you have to promote yourself with live performances ages before a release.

If your album sells, that's cool, more people find out about you, more people get turned on to what we're really about-which is a live rock and roll band.

This is a business built on promotion. We've been giving music away to radio stations for 30 years.

I don't think they like the idea that the people who are buying the record get to choose what goes out, because it's their job. The fans even pre-ordered stock to make sure that I had some sort of presence.

YouTube provides a unique opportunity for all musicians to market and promote their music and directly engage their fans.

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.

Traditionally, tours were a means of promoting a record. Today, the record promotes the tour.

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.

I know if I don't tour people will forget the record and you run a high risk of the record failing.

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.