Jerome Richardson Quotes

The most important thing is that you honor that musical integrity, whether you make music that sounds like ABBA or you make music that sounds like Void.

The way that I've always gone about making music, the rule of thumb, has just been to make what I love.

It's either you finna create your own wave, you finna sound like me or you finna sound like G Herbo, you finna sound like Chance The Rapper, you finna sound like Juice Wrld. You ain't gonna get too far 'cause you sound like somebody. So, create your own lane and do your own style.

With a band like Shenandoah, you don't want to take things and deconstruct them to a point where you don't recognize them.

I've always wanted to make records that rock like hell. But also, I've never wanted to compromise that Country place deep inside.

I learned a long time ago with guitars and amps or anything else, whatever band I'm in, I'm just going to sound like me anyway, so I just stay true to that.

I'm still trying to keep it original, staying true to my sound.

I always just made music that resonates with me emotionally.

In the past, I tried to be more of a typical session guitarist. I wasn't so concerned with impressing anybody.

I don't have favourites, I think, when you play, you have to be like a prostitute, you have to love the piece you are playing. Even if you don't like it, you have to play it as if you would like it. Then you are a good interpreter.

Maybe someday you can accuse somebody of being a poseur by selling out and playing blues music, but that's just not going to happen in my lifetime.

I was interested in maintaining the dignity and the hearts of the songs, letting them breathe and become what they are.

It's not like if I play in big places I won't be happy. But I don't want to start adapting to what's in style to make my music. I want to stay true to my roots, to keep making the music I love, that comes from my soul. And if there are people who want to listen to it, I'm happy.

The message of music was also the first thing what I learned from my first teacher. She was an organist too and she was very devoted to what she played, so she had a respect for every piece and she felt that she is not allowed to add something of her own.

Only one music comes out of me.

As a singer, I just want to try to honor what the writers create - and as someone who's trying to write songs, I just hope I can stand in their company and not embarrass myself.

This business switching styles can't be done honestly by one man. As soon as he can play his instrument well, he can express himself, and all his life he has only one self.

To me, the art of music is magnificent, and I cannot bear to see it treated in a shabby way.

You have to focus hard on recording songs that you believe in.

I didn't want to be one of the Beach Boys or one of the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah band. I mean, we appreciated that music. But I didn't want to grow a beard to look like Roy Wood just because I liked him.

I think that for every artist, it's very important to have an output and to feel very strongly about the music you're producing.

As a musician myself, I wouldn't be confident if I received some other composers' song, because I choose to express myself through the music that I make.

There were certain things I couldn't do with New Order without upsetting the rest of the band, so I started to write some solo stuff.

I felt like it was the space that I could be the most authentic of anywhere because of how I grew up. Even though some of the songs and some of the texture wasn't what I like, I felt like country music was more authentic, in general, than anywhere else.

It's important to me that my music stands out. 'Taki Taki' doesn't sound like anything else out there, and it's hard to do that when you are on the road all the time, but it's really important to me that how people feel about my work. It was the same with 'Magenta Riddim.'