Dave East Quotes

I'm sure if we had made an album that was more traditional would have been released immediately. When we actually play this music on stage and people become familiar with it, it will become more popular.

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.'

It's always a positive when radio is playing your music and fans are responding.

As soon as 'Hide Away' came out, it was like everyone knew who I was, and I started getting all this attention. It was hard to get used to at first. I just remember that I suddenly couldn't walk down the hallways without hearing a classmate or teacher playing it - it was unreal!

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

You want your fanbase and new fans too, to embrace the music, the new music.

You think of your first album, when we had no clue what we were doing, we had no clue if people were going to like it or not, we did it because we love it.

I'm delighted people still enjoy my music all these years later.

I want people to really care when I release an album.

My music has been called so many different things over the years. I figure as long as it's selling, call it what you want.

One minute you're nobody and the next thing you've got people following you around.

I would love the record industry to be more receptive to my music but all they are interested in is style over content.

While we were touring for 'Vacation,' we weren't aware that the record wasn't doing well. It was a good tour, but the album didn't go over with critics.

We make our own music, and the songs appeal to the public well, and the public likes them.

I was thrown into the spotlight pretty quickly at UCLA.

I don't listen to my own music, so to me, it's awesome that people really like it. I was afraid that it wouldn't connect with everyone. I'm more appreciative than anything.

The way I picked the tracks for '99.9%' was based on the feeling of, 'Is this going to be a hit?' I wanted songs that people would immediately hear and remember.

Usually when my music drops, I can go to my hood, I can hear people playing it. Now it comes from performing it, people knowing it and stuff. It's crazy!

Are there a million people out there who would love a Joey Cook album? I think there probably are.

A lot of people think they can become world stars overnight.

There are some brands that we didn't expect to do well in India, like Alice + Olivia. But they sell like hot cakes because women here seem to love it.

When the second album came out, everybody gravitated immediately to the three and a half minute rock tunes and ignored the ballads. They thought all the Raspberries were was players of high-energy rock songs.

We were the ones that from the beginning said that 'Wide Open Spaces' was a hit. 'This is a hit, people are going to relate to it.'

Some people expect me to have changed overnight because of one big song.

One of the reasons we had our reunion tours in the '90s was the unexpectedness of how the music had gone, that these songs we'd recorded should have somehow become timeless classics.