Kenny Beats Quotes

I don't want to ever be categorized. I want to be able to hit every genre.

I don't want to be held down by genres so much.

Barriers have been broken: rappers are singing, and singers are rapping. You might catch a rapper on a rock song, a pop artist on a hip-hop song - there are so many different things that are going on today. That is the same way in which we live our lives; we're all over the place. I like to try different things.

I like to think of my style as pretty versatile. And I'd like whatever I record to reflect that to be mostly genre - to be just something that people want to listen on to see what I'm going to come up with next. That's the kind of music I'm into.

If the lyrics are something new, then maybe I want to give it a more traditional form, or the other way around, but not have all one or the other.

No one can pigeon-hole me because I play everything, and I did that on purpose.

I don't really like to put stuff in a box as far as genre-specific.

I don't really care that much about genre labels. I tend to write across a variety of different genres.

We wanted to write songs that we really like that incorporate everything. It seems a lot of bands want to stick with one thing. We didn't want to be scared to do anything that we wanted to do. We didn't want anything to hold us back. We wanted no boundaries.

I just go with the flow, so any style can be in my music - that makes it exciting.

My music has always been sort of in between categories. Sometimes record stores - back when there were record stores - they'd put my records in the country music section, but other record stores would put my records in the pop or even the rock section. As long as it's in the store somewhere, I'm OK with it.

A lot of singers find a musical genre people like and stick with it. That's being a conformist. I sing ballads, rock, salsa, rap.

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

I'd love to do a sci-fi movie, a western, or an espionage thriller. But I'm not going to limit myself. If a good script comes along, I'm not going to discount it because it doesn't fit into one of these genres.

My music is a direct reflection of the eclectic person I am. I don't like to be stuck in an R&B box.

I can make any type of music, so I wouldn't want to describe myself as having one type of sound. I think music is about keeping it diverse.

I work in whatever medium likes me at the moment.

I'm not loyal to one genre. I want to mix it up.

I think my music generally transcends a lot of genres.

It used to be that film stars didn't want to do TV, and actors weren't singing, and singers weren't acting. Everybody's kind of crossing over to whatever they want to do. So I feel like, if you have it, use it. If God's given you this talent, then use it.

I think anything I do will have an island feel, but I don't want it to be just that; I don't want to be put in a box.

I made a point when I made the Ugly Casanova record to not write a song and then say, 'This is a Modest Mouse song' or 'This is an Ugly Casanova song.' The people who were open to it not being a Modest Mouse record liked it.

I've sort of made a reputation by high-stepping my way out of genre. As soon as somebody says, 'He does this,' I'm not standing there anymore.

I don't really see huge barriers between any styles of music.

We always thought we had to follow a certain theme but I don't agree with that anymore. I think the fans deserve a wider variety of music.