Music Expansion Quotes

Partnering with Atlantic Records creates the opportunity to take what we're doing to the next level, without compromising.

In the beginning, Babymetal received critical comments since the genre was new, but now we have an impression that Babymetal's music is getting accepted and spreading as one genre of music.

The Grammys are very wide-ranging but it's still within the Western world of music. So it would be lovely if that opened up more.

It was just the next logical step from making succinct pop songs. What do you do after that? You make pop songs that are longer and more epic, that push the envelope. Imagine your favourite song, or something that you play over and over in the car, except that you don't have to start it over as much.

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

I am trying to walk a tightrope; trying to keep the DJ community happy while trying to spread the message about dance music to more people. That is the mission that I am on.

Now that I have a thousand albums in my car all the time, I listen to more music. I was too lazy; I always had the same five discs in there. I'd never think to change it.

Before the Beatles, America was musically a very conservative country. You can see film footage of people at a baseball game, they all had hats and ties on, and the women were dressed up like they were going to church. That was the America that I started getting interested in musically.

People are always bemoaning the fact that electronic music is finding its way into the mainstream. To me, that's the best possible thing. It's going to give us a much bigger platform. It's going to train people's ears to these sounds so they can listen to a track even if it doesn't have vocals.

I want to continue to constantly put out great music, expand further and further with the live show and music that is attracting music fans from all over the place, not only for ravers or electronic heads.

Country music is still your grandpa's music, but it's also your daughter's music. It's getting bigger and better all the time and I'm glad to be a part of it.

It's silly to me to not be positive about rock advancing and growing. Really, we just want rock n' roll to be mainstream.

When Florida Georgia Line and Nelly put out the 'Cruise' remix, it brought so many more people to country music.

The most important single fact about pop music in the Nineties, is the number of hours made commercially available increased by an estimated factor of ten.

So, it's a matter of that I want to take our music around the globe.

When I was producing 'Formula Vol. 2,' I knew I needed to come hard with the features and do something I hadn't done with Aventura. Collaborating with Drake was definitely one of those big steps that helped bachata go to the next level.

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 wouldn't say I'm changing myself to find a new audience. It's about growing, trying new things. There's a whole other world out there that doesn't know who Prince Royce is.

We were just going for growth, bigger sound, just a spectrum of people. More global. That's how we decided to do a song like 'Where is the Love' - it allowed us to tap into a broader audience, because the message means a lot to us.

The whole rise of new adult contemporary music and smooth jazz was a nice surprise.

It's a cool feeling to see how far my music has been spreading.

I guess really what my goal is is just to enlarge the violin repertoire.

I would definitely say I'm a country girl at heart; I wanted to make sure that I established my music first at Country just because that is the artist that I am. But it wanted to spill over into pop too, which I don't have a problem with at all and I think is awesome because it spreads it to a broader audience of people.

At the end of the day, I want the music industry to be larger than what it is today.

I'm hoping to knock down the walls and broaden the lane a little bit more for music that's pop music at the heart of it.