Radio Playlist Quotes

There are probably five songs in the world that I get excited about when I hear them on the radio.

Our aim was to be playable on both AM and FM radio - something no one had done in a while.

It was always meant to ease out of a big radio song and flow into the next one. Don't is the bridge song in between Sing and Thinking Out Loud.

There's one place that I've always known I wanted to be, and that is on country radio.

'When Doves Cry' came out - it sounded like nothing that was on the radio. 'Let's Go Crazy' was number one on R&B stations, and there's nothing that's been like that on radio since.

I've always sort of been at odds with radio programmers.

I think the stuff that plays on the radio, the majority of it is for teenagers, which is okay. That's what pop radio is about. And some of it is great, and some of it is not.

Your main radio stations, the stations that get the most listeners, don't play anything that has any kind of integrity to it.

I don't like what the radio plays for the most part.

I'm not crazy about how sort of homogenized pop music become. It used to be much more diverse. Maybe it's just what's played on the radio sounds very much the same.

Ever since the Dixie Chicks, the female perspective on country radio has been love songs. I love love songs, but we do have more to talk about, so it's nice that other perspectives are coming back.

I don't want to be subsumed into popular culture and played on the radio next to some garbage music.

There are a lot of composers who were fantastic, but I challenge them to write a record that you could play five times a day for two months on the radio, songs that people will want to dance to on a Saturday night.

But why is it that in music, anything more than 5 years old - apart from a few hits - is never played on radio to the young public?

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'm not trying to dog any artist or genre, but to me, there is a lot of diversity missing from the radio. I miss turning the radio on and getting punched in the soul with a great lyric.

To come home and have three songs working on radio, I can't tell you how happy I am. It is amazing.

I love that on country radio, you can hear a George Strait song, and the next is Sam Hunt. I love that there's such a variety.

Country radio certainly widens the boundaries of what I can do. Other artists may do something more edgy that gets on radio and that opens the door for me to be more edgy, I think.

There are some commercial artists that have number one after number one, and you go to their show, and the show's one-note. Yeah, they're all hit songs. But there's no emotion, because they're the same kind of hit songs, because they're what works at radio. That kills live shows for me.