Andy Grammer Quotes

But the idea of taking things and mixing them together is what I do in my music. I take hip-hop, R&B, pop, dance, funk and soul and mix it all together to get my own sound.

My sound is a mix between pop, hip-hop, and R&B. It's a good collaborative effort of all three.

I'm a rapper-singer, or singer-rapper - it's not one before the other. I do both.

I never started out as an R&B singer. I grew up on all types of music - jazz, rock, pop, country, folk - and I wanted to bring that to my stage.

My sound is, at its core, a mix of things. Definitely an imperfect mix, but one that incorporates elements of the music I love - a bit of indie rock, super rhythmic rapping, and lots of synths.

I really just blend like rock, R&B and rap together to create a sub-genre, but it's very versatile.

I like songs in all different genres and types. My production and songwriting is everything from pop rock to hip-hop and everything in between.

I don't like putting a name on my music. It's not just country and rap; it's got Southern rock, classic rock.

The biggest misconception about us is that we're just a rock band. We think our music is a cross-section of many genres; a hybrid of what the six of us have grown up on.

I have a very pop voice, but there's so much of me I associate mostly with urban music, so I try to blend the two.

Rihanna is so into rock, and she gives me an empty canvas to work with. I get to do wild solos and crunch up the rhythms. It's rock, it's R&B, it's hip-hop, it's funky - all totally up my alley.

If you take a song like 'We Will, We Will Rock You,' 'You got blood on your face... ' - he's rhyming on that! And if you take the lyrics out of that song, you get a hip-hop beat. It's a rock song, though. So it's not out of my element for me to get with Black Lips.

A lot of what I listened to growing up was blues, but also folk and indie music. So there's this marriage of songs that structurally are quite bluesy. Sound-wise, there's a lot of indie as well. But you can't really say I'm pop-blues, because that's insulting to blues. It just can't exist.

I'd say I am a nice cross of R&B and Pop.

Blues, rock, and soul are part of the music I make, but there are Indian influences, too.

One thing about Foster the People is that it's taking pieces of a lot of different genres of music and kind of melding them together.

I was brought up on Black Sabbath, David Bowie, 50 Cent, and Guru. And it all comes out in my own music somewhere.

My music is very diversified. I'll have a rock song then I'll do a ballad.

Well, I am not sure of when my album will be released but my music has a lot of different sounds. I'm a hip-hop/R&B girl at heart, but I love pop music as well, and I even have an affinity for country music. So I would say my music might have something for everyone.

I am a pop and R&B singer. I'm not necessarily an Indian singer or musician. I sing in English, and the music I do blends hip hop, pop, R&B, and soul.

Even though 'Turn Down For What' is considered an EDM song, it's really a rap song.

With rapping, that's just another form of expressing your music. Whether you're going to rap, you're going to sing, it's whatever you want.

I don't want to put a name on my music. Other people can put a name on what I do. It's just the union of what I've been listening to and what I've been learning. It has some elements of classical music, it has some rock, it has some jazz, but I don't want to give it a name.

I've been criticized for doing so - crossover music. But I never claimed to be a pure dancehall artist.

I love Bruce Springsteen's writing, but I grew up on '90s hip hop, like Tribe Called Quest.