Dusty Hill Quotes

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

We have a very loyal fan base, the kind tat buys the record the day it comes out, sees every show, and that's fantastic, but what about the people who would never hear about our band?

Commercial music, for the most part, is popular music and you always have to keep that in mind.

You could be Top 5 on iTunes, but for people to buy an album, they've got to have a connection with an artist. Every time I bought someone's album, it was about the connection. I was loving everything, from their raps to their style. I wanted to meet them.

Rock and rollers can get you the youth buzz, and younger people are fanatical readers.

I think it's ridiculous to try to sell records to teenagers, because teenagers don't buy my records. And there ain't that many teenagers out there in the marketplace.

All of the sudden the audiences started getting younger and the spread of the attendance was really wide. I think it's as a result of the records selling more that they started following our careers.

D.C. is one my largest audiences. They buy tons of records of mine in Washington, D.C.

I remember auditioning for record labels and having them tell me, 'Well, the country-radio demographic is the thirty-five-year-old female housewife. Give us a song that relates to the thirty-five-year-old female, and we'll talk.'

I've noticed more people coming to shows and I've had a feeling that they were from a part of the culture I haven't been able to get to before, younger people. I think on iTunes they've been experimenting with my songs and the digital radio world has been very kind to me.

When I hear other artists talk, they talk about 'How come radio's not playing my song?' Well, you have to look at it under a microscope and know that each station is just trying to do what's right for their market, and it's scary for a radio station to add a song that they don't know how well it's gonna do for them.

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.

Every generation of rock musician will understand that we wouldn't be anywhere without the support of teenagers buying the records.

Jay-Z, he knows precisely who he's going for - 14-year-old white suburban girls.

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

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

I think before, in the '80s, it was more about fashion and music videos and a lot of radio: getting out there and the fans learning who you were and your music.

Commercial success won't come to us from a change in the music. It will gradually be the result of a change in the appetite of the audience.

We knew we were making records for a certain demographic. We didn't look outside of that.

If you respond to pop music as an older person, then it's your game. But this business has a tremendously visual focus.

I think R&B is way bigger in America. It's not really that mainstream in the U.K.

Most companies that are successful listen to people and see what they want and they make that. So when I used to make songs, I'd make mixtapes. The public would tell me what they like and then I would make songs based on what they like. That's how I knew 'Ridin' Dirty' was going to be big - they told me they liked this kind of music.

You have to know who you're making music for.

It's kind of crazy to see how many people actually listen to my music.

But what you realise after you've been in the business for a while is that people develop opinions about you that don't have anything to do with your music, they like or dislike you for a million reasons, they like or dislike you for your last record.