Dusty Hill Quotes

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

With instrumental music, it is traditionally hard to get exposure.

I can't wait to start something up myself that is actually about giving unsigned bands the exposure they deserve, especially when they travel so far to play the smallest gig they've ever played in their lives.

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.

I started growing my audience in small clubs through word-of-mouth. I started making music that isn't necessarily commercially viable, and it's not necessarily marketable to my peers to a certain extent.

If I had to play only for people who liked the music because they heard it on the radio, it wouldn't make me happy. That's why I'm working so hard to have, yes, a profile as an artist, but also a profile as a DJ.

It's hard to get people at a record company to talk about music. They don't seem to want to talk about music, it's all marketing, and that's part of a record, you gotta get it out there, people have gotta hear it, but you could do it in a way that's not repulsive.

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.

The hardest part about the music industry for anyone is getting into the ears of the world.

I want to sell music, and I want radio to play my songs.

I can work my butt off and create an album that's wonderful, but if it's never played and never given the outlet, it won't succeed.

Distributing the music is so easy it's moot. So now the delicate art of calling attention to your music means everything. Marketing is distribution.

I miss how a record label can help spread the word that you have something out.

Any real record person knows that the number one most powerful marketing tool when it comes to music is repetition.

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.

Being a part of exhibitions is not a burden; it's another way for an independent label such as mine to reach a larger audience by exposing them to my whole body of work.

I'm like a twenty-two-year-old kid in a new band trying to get noticed and break through, because the vast majority of people have never seen me play live.

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.'

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.

After you make good, quality music, then it's your job to go out there and promote it and to market it and to get it out there to the people.

I always wanted the world to hear my music, but I didn't know how I was gonna go about it.

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

It was hard to work and work and work and not get your music played on the radio.

There has never been any proper commitment to marketing these artists and their music. We are not Sony.

You know, if nobody knows who you are, nobody's going to buy your record.