Trey Songz Quotes

I feel my voice can fit in many things so it's very interesting to combine things and music styles.

I'm very, very open to experimenting with different people and trying to find different methods of writing and making music.

Back then we were young, we would just mash all forms of music together and come up with something.

Trying new things and experimenting is something I push myself to do. It's one thing to have love for all different kinds of music; it's another thing to bring them together seamlessly and make them coherent.

I think that all my albums are different enough where I don't feel like I did this the last time.

Musicians are always eclectic. Musicians are always curious and hungry for new things.

I try not to get trapped in any one musical or visual style at all.

I always try to do something different. I don't think I've made the same record over and over.

You don't just have to be influenced by rock, or goth, anymore. It's okay to say, 'My influences are Tin Pan music from Bali and Rihanna.' There are still so many combinations that haven't been done yet.

I never thought that I would be creating my own 'cross-over' genre. What I did was very real and organic. I have worked in so many different styles so it all just came together.

I feel like my kind of music is a big pot of different spices. It's a soup with all kinds of ingredients in it.

It's important to me to not stay too confined to any specific sonic space. There is something really magical about straight folk music - it's not that I don't like it, it's just that I like so much music, I hear so many different things, and I want to try more. I don't want to be confined.

I'm not afraid to embrace different music and different culture and put it in the music.

I just like blending all the genres together but blending them up in a good way. I try to be as free as I can with it.

The recipe to our success is that you have a bunch of different guys who listen to a lot of different music.

Always try and play with as many people as possible, even if it's not your style of music, because you will learn a lot.

The only intention I've ever had creatively, as a musician, is to be as different from myself as possible.

Of course, I'm open to all kinds of genres. In my head, there are no demarcations.

There are so many ideas that I have in my mind, of projects that I would love to tackle, people I would love to work with, genres I would love to experiment with, and sounds that don't fit any of my previous projects that I need to find a home for.

I spent my whole musical career trying to be different and make songs that people think shouldn't go together... go together.

I love working with different artist with different styles and different producers with different sounds, creativity is everything.

Whether it's a song that might deviate from an artists' usual sound or even if it's still very much in their world, I think the more people opening themselves up creatively to collaborate with others, the better.

The reason I shift gears constantly, why I'm doing an opera, why I've done essays, why I've written poetry for years that nobody wanted, why I do short stories and novels and screenplays... is so I will have new ways of failing. This means becoming a student again.

The whole cultural diversity and musical diversity, I think they almost go hand in hand, you know? It's like a mind space or a it's having an open mind to what else is out there.

There's been a lot of role reversal going on in the band. The roles people have been playing for a long time will always be there, but everybody's willing to try on different outfits.