Marilyn Horne Quotes

I can't sing anything other than country!

Lauryn Hill, P-Funk, Marvin Gaye, Public Enemy - I have a very diverse palate for music. I can go from Judy Garland to Jimi Hendrix to Stevie Wonder to Rachmaninoff. I just love great music.

I always believed a singer should be able to sing any kind of song. If I wanted to sing a Cole Porter song, I should be able to do that. Or 'Sherry,' I should be able to do that. Or a Dylan song.

I don't just sing R&B: I'm able to sing pop and play with other sounds, but it's all real soulful.

You know, I am very versatile in music.

I can do R&B, pop, gospel... whatever genre of music that's out.

I don't want to limit myself musically. It would be really limiting if we'd neglect something we really want to do, like explore other styles of music.

We are rich in the quantity of songs rather than in the quality. The singer has to go through hundreds of compositions before he finds one that really says something.

I am comfortable with anything I sing: jazz, gospel, classical. It doesn't matter. I can do it all.

Music is music; you don't have to put a label on it.

I'm quite an eclectic musician.

Fundamentally I feel that there is as much difference between the stage and the films as between a piano and a violin. Normally you can't become a virtuoso in both.

I think music is so diverse today, and bands are so diverse. If you were a rock band in the Eighties, you kind of had to stick to one thing. Now, in this age of Coachella and European festivals and stuff, it's kind of anything goes, so that allowed us to try different things.

I found the blues too limiting, and classical was too disciplined.

I like writing all different kinds of songs. I've wanted to run the gamut of artists.

I loved singing rock-and-roll, jazz, anything on radio, anything commercial. I was able to do anything, but I didn't know what direction to go in.

I love that I can play around with all types of music.

I was put on so many different musical stages growing up that I didn't think about what kind of music we played. I just thought music was music.

If you watch 'American Idol,' and you close your eyes, you don't know who's singing because they all sound exactly alike.

When I first started singing, I didn't know which direction to take - I sang rock & roll and all kinds of things.

A lot of people with a range of styles and vocal tones make all kinds of music for all sorts of audiences. I'll be forever grateful for that.

Who's to say a blues man can't play rock and roll?

I have different sounds... I don't want to be just that girl that sings reggaeton or trap music.

I think that's the great thing for us - we're a band full of songwriters, and we're capable of writing all kinds of songs.

I got a reputation for being 'eclectic' or some damn thing like that, but to me, the different kinds of music I play are all the same stuff - good time music - and it is the only stuff I can do.