Luka Sulic Quotes

I mix up all styles on my albums because that is what music is about now.

I like the idea of an eclectic approach, incorporating jazz with other forms and other genres of music.

I just loved classical music, but I also loved playing rock guitar, and I loved playing piano, so it was a natural thing that those things would merge at some point.

I've realized that I love all forms of music and get excited when any artist goes crazy and creates something that is an experience.

People are always defining and re-defining music. My style of playing has been characterized as smooth jazz and acid jazz. I listen as I play; I'm not caught up in defining the type of music I play.

I don't see categories; I don't see styles - l see them all gelled together. And it was gospel that definitely helped me to do that.

My whole life, I've always had one foot in the classical world and one foot in the rock, pop, and folk world.

I worked with different producers from all genres, trying to bridge different styles of music, from urban to electronica to ballads.

Whichever chord progressions move me, whether it's rock, jazz, doo-wop or soul, I'm going to put it together and not be worried about whether people can put it in a lane or not.

I really like jazz and soul, but I also love so many other types of music, and I didn't want to be afraid to blend and experiment.

It's funny; people get so doctrinaire about music. It should be the last thing you don't have an open mind about.

I like writing different types of music. I don't like being stuck into one thing.

Music is music; you don't have to put a label on it.

Maybe one day music will just be music, and there won't be these categories; it'll just be different shades of music.

Hip-hop educated me about other forms of music, because it sampled from all different styles.

We play melodic music, we play songs, we play all kinds of things and when you improvise you don't just shut out different languages, you use all the languages that you have.

I'm a huge stadium rock fan, but I'm also a fan of everything from Massive Attack to Peter Gabriel, U2, the Police, Radiohead, and Coldplay. I've realized that I love all forms of music and get excited when any artist goes crazy and creates something that is an experience.

I'm a big fan of '70s records where artists could draw on whatever influences they wanted.

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.

Hip hop is doing the new rock thing; there are no rules. They can do anything, really. And that's inspiring.

I love a lot of music that's considered folk music, but I also love a lot of music that's considered punk or considered rap. I don't mind being called a folk singer. But it seems a bit limiting. I want to be able to write whatever kind of song I want.

I'm a rapper and, obviously, hip hop rap is my main thing. But I also like to dive into different genres and kind of be a bit more experimental and open myself up a bit, whether that's taking influence from jazz or soul or electronic.

I don't have a genre because I play lots of different music that people would say are different genres.

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.