Music Outreach Quotes

You can't sustain a fan base on a great catalog alone. You must take your music directly to the people.

We want our music to reach everybody, so we're using the Internet. Every kid today is online, and we want to make sure our songs reach every one of them.

I remember watching the Three Tenors at the World Cup in 1990, and it was amazing. They made opera accessible to the man in the street.

I've always thought that jazz needs to be heard by a wider audience in Puerto Rico. I want to put together a series of free concerts in the small towns - one with Miles Davis music, another with bebop, maybe Duke Ellington. I want younger people to see what is possible.

I go stay a week in these little towns that don't have an art outlet and... go to the schools and play some of the old Texas music, sort of 'go through the Texas country roots' is what they call it.

We want to embrace the younger crowds and get them to embrace instruments.

When 'Hide Away' first started gaining a bit of momentum, I was visiting at least two radio stations per day - sometimes in different cities - to spread the word about the song. It was a hustle, but so worth it.

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.

More than anything, I want to just have the largest amount of people possible listening to my music. This is the biggest thing to me.

As a singer, you want to connect with as many people as possible; that's my whole thing.

Doing interviews and touring are two ways that I can try to bring my music to people. It can be tiring, but it's better than working at Burger King.

I saw how hard it was for even really talented bands to reach an audience.

These are the Rad instruments that are dying out in India. So, it's going well and I think now we are increasing the number of kids we have taught and of course we are helping out with other things too. It's based in India now. [The idea is to] perfect it in one place and then we'll expand.

My mother was devoted to helping people - with my father's money! - who had great voices but didn't have the financial means to study music. He and my mum gave away dozens of music scholarships, and my mum opened a school in town, introduced opera to children and created fantastic programmes.

We have to be evangelists for music. We couldn't just be high priests of music.

I would love to expose multiple younger generations to Frank's music. It's not an easy task because It's not ever going to be plastered all over the radio for the masses.

That's what I care about is the people I work with and representing them and helping to make their music apparent for the rest of the world.

When I look at how fortunate I've been, being a musician... my response to being overpaid is that I should pay it back to my community in some way.

If you're making music, you must want to turn other people on to it, whether you're number one in the charts or number 60.

It's powerful when you're able to celebrate your culture, but also bring the arts and music to the masses.

I want to work on reaching out to people, through my music, at the grass-roots level.

My dad plays guitar in the church band, so it's like music as a service. He plays at old-people homes, so that's like music as a gift.

I'm doing a program with NAFME for music and education in schools, and for a week, we will be getting in a bus and traveling across the United States. We're starting at Disney World and ending at the Grand OIe Opry. We will be performing at different schools, and I wrote a song for the program called 'Always Sing.'

We came out of a very provincial city that was not very supportive of music, and we had to do our own thing and flyer everywhere.

Going to a concert can sometimes be very difficult. It can be a long journey. There's the ticket prices. But when the music goes to the community - not the community coming to the concert - they say, 'Wow! I didn't know that this music was so amazing!'