Tycho Quotes

I think for a while, a lot of artists were doing great things that... were broadening the audience so that country was cool.

I would love to expose multiple younger generations to Frank's music. It's not an easy task because It's not ever going to be plastered all over the radio for the masses.

There is so much great talent in the underground, and electronic music is finally getting the props that it's deserved for so long. I feel like now that everyone is discovering it and it's so fresh sounding to so many people. It doesn't get any more rock n' roll than playing EDC or the Staples Center. It's really madness.

We need to take music out of the ivory tower - both for musicians and for the public. Otherwise, classical music will not survive the 21st century.

I think representation is something that's absolutely needed. I felt like with K-pop being so hot, we could leverage that to potentially do something bigger with music in the States that people could latch onto.

I never thought we were a country band in the first place. I think we've gotten ourselves into a place where we don't underestimate our listeners and what potential there is for the music they've heard all their lives.

We gotta let hip-hop grow. We gotta let it go through its different phases throughout the different places that's accepting it.

In the beginning, Babymetal received critical comments since the genre was new, but now we have an impression that Babymetal's music is getting accepted and spreading as one genre of music.

It's silly to me to not be positive about rock advancing and growing. Really, we just want rock n' roll to be mainstream.

You can still make music that people love, but there won't be more innovation. I started listening to electronic music a long time ago. But mostly I listen to rap. I think rap is the most interesting.

The whole rise of new adult contemporary music and smooth jazz was a nice surprise.

With Australian audiences, there's a certain level of education - as far as how much access and exposure they have to music from various genres. So when you do 'Big Day Out' and there are all these different musical acts, you see the same people in your crowd that were there for a completely different artist.

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

A lot of people see electronic music as a flavor of the week, but it can be more than that - has to be more than that.

I'm one of those firm believers that good music will prevail.

I'm very pro presenting the best music I can to the widest audience possible.

Country music is still your grandpa's music, but it's also your daughter's music. It's getting bigger and better all the time and I'm glad to be a part of it.

I don't have a problem with how people receive the music. I feel like it's for everybody.

Instrumental music is increasingly marginalized and there's just no outlet, there's no venue for it, in terms of media.

Growing up as a classical musician, you're taught a lot about outreach and about how people aren't being taught music in school. But you don't have to study music to like it. And a lot of the music that people like - be it jazz or rock or opera - is stuff they haven't studied.

If hip-hop is dead, then let it rest in peace and let's move on to something else.

I just don't want any songs to go unheard.

I want to just change how people look at music and artists.

I found dozens of albums I loved every year of the early 70s and more in the late 70s and more still in the decades since, partly because I knew more about music by then and partly because there were more to choose from.

Music is cyclical, but I've never thought of the music I make as being so off the wall or left field that it wouldn't always have an audience that would relate to it.