Paul Horn Quotes

Country seems to be finding a bigger audience. Certainly an audience out of the general country scene is finding me.

It's pretty weird to me that our music is as popular as it is.

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

'She's Country' obviously changed a lot of things for us and pretty much, I think, doubled our crowd size in just a few months time.

A Grammy is really nice, but having lots of fans is really nice, too. I think just getting a record out is a success on its own.

I wanna cover more ground, get a bigger fan base.

Fortunately, the music from the first record really connected with people, and I was really proud of that.

We strive to have new records. We strive to have new songs on the radio. That feels good that we can gain those new fans and still bring out our fans that have been with us for some of the ride or all of the ride.

In rock music, you have a big success before you turn 30, then there is sort of a decay. Then there is the reunion, and everyone is waiting to hear what you were doing when you were 20, and nobody cares what you are doing at 50 or 60. But the more I continue, the more I produce, the more I play every year in bigger places.

We've got great fans that rock and roll won't have, because you can have a one-hit record and country music used to, not so much anymore and you have a fan forever.

The song This Kiss was definitely my breakthrough song. After that, Breathe was my breakthrough album.

It would be nice to garner new fans and make it a success - and success is relevant, we already know all that.

If I could sell 500 million records every time, it would be great. But I've also had the luxury experience of having it when I was a teenager, in a very kind of model version of it.

When 5150 came out rock was king. Post Nirvana and Pearl Jam 1996 is a different story.

There's always people saying that rock is dead, rock is over. People are always out to kill rock and roll.

Although I do feel that with a show like ours we ourselves are getting a lot more young listeners at concerts.

The music sold itself before anybody knew who I was.

You realise that having a number one record and being loved and adored isn't the most important thing in the world. But at the same time, I don't have a problem with it. What I'm trying to say is, I'm not a reluctant pop star.

The music industry is really funny, when you have a hit record, everyone knows who are you, everyone wants to do duets with you, then if you have a miss, people suffer from amnesia.

The soundtrack of O Brother is the most publicity I've gotten. I don't feel that I have lost any of my old fans, but I have gained new ones.

Who decides what is and what isn't punk? I want to write songs that people hear and feel, and I want to be successful and reach a big audience. I'm not trying to be the coolest guy in the world; I'm trying to write songs that mean something to people. As you get successful, sometimes you lose one set of fans and gain another.

I'm not like a legend that - so I'm sort of in the middle in this sort of gray area where, you know, I'm creating music, and I'm not saying there isn't an audience, because there is; because all of those people go out and spend $80 to $150 on a concert ticket.

They'll see it. And it doesn't matter if they don't. It's only Rock 'n' Roll. But I do intend to move more into the Mainstream. Marilyn Manson is just the First phase.

I had no idea 'Big Green Tractor' was going to be as big a hit as it was. You just can't predict those things.

You look at what One Direction has done and just say, 'That is just lucky;' it is not. It is happening because they are talented boys, good looking lads; and yes, their songs might not be the typical songs that lots of radios want to play, but they are great songs, pop records, that are massive across the world selling in huge numbers.