Vanilla Ice Quotes

More than half of all the hip hop record sales are white people, and I think that might be a result of my record helping people to accept hip hop.

I always give the example, if you turn on the radio today, black radio, Lenny Kravitz is not black. Bob Marley wasn't black: in the beginning, only white college stations played Bob Marley.

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

I think it's OK if somebody likes my music and likes Sam Hunt's music, too. And I think if we're both selling records, it's good for everybody. I think it allows other records to get made.

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

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.

A lot of people don't know about music, but buy records. A lot of people that know about music can't afford to buy records.

But I also think it's up to the fan base to call in the radio stations and demand that the more mature artists be played as well.

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.

People's musical tastes are fickle, and music can be a fashion.

As a black artist in America, you know, it is so segregated as far as the radio goes and how they position music on the radio.

Music is so hard. It's a struggle to get people to care. It's hard to make an impact in today's world because people aren't buying records anymore.

I just cut songs I love and that represent what I want to say. And if it crosses over, that's very flattering. It's cool to know that with people listening to rock and rap, I'm sitting on their iPods along with that stuff.

The one thing the blues don't get is the backing and pushing of TV and radio like a lot of this garbage you hears. They choke stuff down people's throat so they got no choice but to listen to it.

One of the things I wonder is whether it's good that the whole free model makes a lot of people listen to more of your music. I'm wondering if it devalues it, it becomes disposable, because you can get it so easily.

It's not like, I don't know, if Madonna has a new record out, then everybody from Bangkok to Birmingham knows what its called and can buy it the same week. But our stuff is not in that mass market.

I think Charley Pride has been one of the best things to happen to country music, to prove it belongs to everybody.

I guess I would definitely feel a bit of a void in what people are getting from music these days. And I think that the problem lies not so much on the listener. People kind of listen to what is presented to them, whether it be on the radio or at a local venue.

I think people were just starving for good material because they just weren't getting it on the radio.

The market didn't define the music; the music defined the market.

But I remember we sold nearly 18,000 records in one day.

My audience is the baby-boomers, the bulk of the population. This is also a group that is being ignored by most record companies because they're not the Top 40 hit singles market. They forget these people still listen to music.

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