Jon Brion Quotes

Music is music. It doesn't matter if I am trying to aim at country or trying to aim at pop.

I've always appreciated having a wide music taste, despite making what a lot of people would call electronic music.

I never looked or really believed that music should be categorized into particular genres.

I'd love to work with SBTRKT if he'd have me.

I would love to collab with The Weeknd, for sure.

I was a Kimya fan for a long time, a Moldy Peaches fan, so I got to work on her 'Thunder Thighs' record a little bit and we became friends and just started writing songs.

I've never made R&B. I've never made gospel. I've never made hip-hop - I don't think I'm going to, but I just want to keep challenging myself.

I don't want to be labeled as a certain style producer; I just want to be producer and musician in general.

I'd love to work with Kendrick, Frank Ocean, The Internet, or Alanis Morisette!

People grapple with labeling me as hip-hop, R&B, or pop, and it's interesting to me. I'm just making music.

I don't put myself in any box or say that I can't work on any kind of music. I'm not just a producer that only makes urban music.

I can do every type of music, but hip-hop was my way into the game.

'Better' is one of the first real steps I've made into 'pop music,' and this collab feels like a match made in Heaven!

I don't want people to think that just because I do club records, I can't do an album record or an R&B single. I can do R&B, I do pop, I do whatever - but it's still Mustard.

I grew up playing in rock bands while I was listening to rap records. I like a lot of stuff.

I'd love to collaborate with Frank Ocean. He's one of my favorite artists of all time.

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

I'd love to do something with somebody like James Blake.

I like making all kinds of music, it really depends on the moment. Sometimes I feel like making a weird trap song, and sometimes I can't even attach a track to a genre.

'The Alesha Show' was done with production crew Xenomania, and this time, I've worked with a lot of upcoming new producers.

Kanye West would be my dream collaboration.

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

I wouldn't call myself at all as a crossover artist - I kind of hate that word - but in a way, you need to see me like that, because I'm working in classical music, I'm doing these other projects, and I'm having a rock career at the same time.

I grew up with all different genres of music, and I want to include that in my production as well.

I love collaborations because they take your music in a different way.