Kevin Olusola Quotes

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

I have a fan base. I've sold a million albums in country music. I've got fans out there who love my music and would like to hear more.

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!

I don't want to put my fate in country music fans; I'm too stubborn.

There's no difference in a lot of people's minds between good musicians and popular musicians.

I've always said I can't tell sometimes that people even have an album out until I see them nominated for a Grammy. I think country gets dumped on across the board by the Grammys.

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.

I mean that'd be great if we could continue to be staples of alt-rock radio. I don't take that for granted.

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 think if we keep on doing good music and people like us and they buy the magazine because we are in the magazine then they cant basically hate us hopefully.

Even though I am signed to an American label, I want Australia to fall in love with my music because if it doesn't work here, it won't work anywhere.

It doesn't matter how good you are as a band or how good your music may be; if the fans aren't supporting it and buying your music, it's hard to make it.

My records have done very well in Europe and I want Americans to like my music too.

I really believed that my songs were good enough for the whole world to listen to. I had fans from America or the U.K. who would be like, 'Oh my God, I love your music'.

Obviously, it's great to know that your music is being listened to.

We were excited when we sold our first 10 records. I always felt that if we could get the music out there, and if people became accustomed to it, then a substantial number of them would enjoy it.

Some musicians like to decorate their walls with discs saying: '1 million records sold in America.' I prefer to put up discs marking sales in lesser-known countries.

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.

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.

I have to say I find it totally astounding that my albums do as well as they do. It's quite extraordinary, and it's actually very touching for me for the albums to be received with such warmth.

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.

New York gave me hell for that 'Purple Swag,' man. They didn't respect me until 'Peso.'

I'm not deluded enough to think that everyone who knows my name is a listener. You know, I hope that part of that interest - part of that public interest - has to do with me still making records that people like.

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

Music is always occurring. It is just a matter of marketing, attention, and many other factors, that determines whether people will hear these songs or not.