Nayvadius Wilburn Quotes

No, I don't think rock 'n' roll will ever fade.

What people don't understand is that my dad isn't up on the contemporary music scene. He's been a legend for decades and he doesn't know what's going on right now, and he doesn't need to.

I understand what songs like 'Mr Brightside' mean to people. They will last forever.

Although I grew up as a fan of the culture from the disco D.J. era as a young kid and hearing the beginnings of hip-hop, I'm hearing it all from another borough in Brooklyn.

Everybody else was quoting 2Pac, and I was running around with Green Day in my Walkman. Racially speaking, I wasn't cool or appropriate for any group.

Secretly, I wanted to look like Jimi Hendrix, but I could never quite pull it off.

Like every artist that comes out, you want to make a mark; you want to be a household name and you want to be someone that people are going to look back in ten years/fifteen years' time and go, 'I love this guy Olly Murs. He was brilliant back in the day; he was someone I really, really liked.'

My style is part of the music I like, the bands I see, the people I surround myself with, the places I go to.

Every time a new rock singer comes out they don't say, 'Are you the new John Lennon?' Every time a new rapper comes out, it's not, 'Are you the new Dre?' I am never sure why this sort of genre, the categorization is so strong. I have not earned the right to be called the young Sinatra, but give me time.

I have my own biography of Gram Parsons - I don't want to be part of somebody else's.

People hear a powerful female singer in a rock and roll band, and they say, 'Janis Joplin.' I think people just make that comparison because it's easy. But I don't think I sound like her at all.

I like the way Billy Idol sings. Mommy turned me on to him.

I was growing up listening to Queen. Freddie Mercury threw those incredible melodies into his songs.

I really do love Diana Ross; I grew up listening to her records. I grew up in a little town in Mexico, so while we got the music, we never got the experience of watching her.

Dick Clark's 'American Bandstand' spread the gospel of American pop music and teenage style that transcended the regional boundaries of our country and united a youth culture that eventually spread its message throughout the entire world.

Elvis was a big influence to my music, but Loretta Lynn was, as well.

There weren't any white people in this country who didn't know who Gladys Knight was. Or the Pips were, as far as that's concerned.

Black culture is something I don't relate to much at all.

I always loved Willie Nelson, but I loved the songs that Willie made famous.

Music isn't like news, where it's what happened five minutes ago or even 10 seconds ago that matters. With music, a song from the 1960s could be as relevant to someone today as the latest Ke$ha song.

You might like it as a joke or because you liked it then, but there isn't a whole new generation discovering Wham!.

I turned a lot of people in white America - and not just white America, but middle-class America - into hip-hoppers, you know?

People are so confused about race and hip-hop that people didn't even consider the Beastie Boys one of the greatest rap groups of all time because they were white.

Irving Berlin was the greatest songwriter of all time. I was in awe of him. But his music wasn't my music. My music was the blues.

Jimi Hendrix came from the blues, like me. We understood each other right away because of that. He was a great blues guitarist.