Art Quote by Herb Alpert

You got to understand: when you go into a record company and give them a something that doesn't sound like what's on the radio,…

— Shaggy

I'm not in any way selling out by having a record that's good enough for radio.

— Donnis

Here's the tragedy of the modern record business: It's radio. If you're not on radio, nobody really is going to hear you or see…

— Shirley Manson

If you get on the radio, people hear it, they buy the record. If you get on Spotify playlist nowadays, people hear it, they…

— Doug Walters

In the '80s, the way radio was programmed, if you didn't have a hit record you weren't going to be able to make any…

— Huey Lewis

You should never try to make a record and say it's for the radio, you should just make it, and then if it happens…

— Jadakiss

And looking at today's music scene, I think it's cool that there are a lot of consumers and fans not limited by what radio…

— Juice Newton

It used to be that if you had a pretty good record, you could stop by a station in Little Rock or Atlanta and…

— Charley Pride

You never know how people are going to find songs for their records. Sometimes people will hear songs on someone else's record and really…

— J. J. Cale

No one's promised anything. You could have the biggest record on radio and sell no records.

— Nas

No one sells records anymore. It's all about touring. It's all greatest hits records and box sets. And even those don't sell. People just…

— Frank Stallone

I'm not an artist that has a big, huge radio record that's going to be on BET.

— Talib Kweli