Music Saturation Quotes

There's enough music in the world. There are enough rock stars.

As with many pop acts, your shelf life isn't that great, we peaked with our first album.

You've had all that punk and New Wave thing, and I think people have really got sick up to here with it. I know I have.

I know that starting out as a young band, it's really easy to get lost with bands that sound the same or with the plethora of music that's out there.

I'll tell you, what the world doesn't need is another Joe Bonamassa DVD.

When I'm not playing music, certainly the last thing I want to do is listen to music!

Listening to the radio makes you hate every song.

I think it's important to say something. If you're making music it's kinda' like, oh, cool, so is everyone else.

I don't want to be a rapper that puts out, like, 600 songs a year.

When I used to put an album out, I knew everyone on the charts. There weren't that many bands. Now, I couldn't even name half the new groups.

I guess now music is so saturated and so microwaved. It's, like, 15 minutes in the microwave and boom, you've got something. Nobody's putting passion or any thought behind it anymore.

I think it'd be a real nightmare to put a record out and sell 20 million copies and then that's it.

The chief trouble with jazz is that there is not enough of it; some of it we have to listen to twice.

There's enough songs for people to listen to, if they want to listen to songs. For every man, woman and child on earth, they could be sent, probaby, each of them, a hundred records, and never be repeated. There's enough songs. Unless someone's gonna come along with a pure heart and has something to say. That's a different story.

If you oversaturate the market with singles, then people will get sick of you.

Jive is a good label, but they're R&B'ed out.

I don't listen to a lot of music at all. I think that's very bizarre too, because it was such a comfort zone for me. But I don't know if I had my fill, but I don't listen to a lot of music, because I'm creating it.

Pop music has been exhausted. The innocence has been exhausted. I think we've lost the ability to be blown away by music.

I may just keep releasing singles 'til I run out of music, which is kind of cool in a way - as long as people don't go, 'Oh my God, not another one!'

Radio... force-feeds us music... everywhere and all the time... sewage-water music in which music is dying.

If we start putting music out constantly where people don't think no more, people go crazy. We're gonna lose the love of heart, of soul. And if the world lose that, I think the world is doomed.

There are so many rappers now that it's cluttering our culture. 90% of the time at a show there are more artists in the crowd than there are fans - it's too much. Too many people try to give you CD's.

Pop music thrives on repetition. You know a song's a hit when you've heard it so often that you'll be happy never to hear it again.

Now so many really good groups who have had a first major hit can't get a deal for a second one.

These are very difficult times for new artists. Back in the day, a hit song could really seep into a person's DNA with radio and MTV. A hit today is not the same as a hit twenty years ago. Now there is so much competition, it is very hard to reach the people. The music scene is so overly saturated. There are no gatekeepers like there used to be.