Dianne Reeves Quotes

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

Some people think I'm a rock 'n' roll musician and some think I'm a jazz musician but, for me, there is no difference.

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.

To break R&B into subcategories does a disservice to the music. I like to live in a zone where I can do whatever I want, where I don't have to worry about genre.

The reflection of the world is blues, that's where that part of the music is at. Then you got this other kind of music that's tryin' to come around.

Progressive music probably wouldn't even really exist if not for the people of the United States having picked up on it and nurtured it in the way they did. It really is an American form of music in the sense that it was nurtured here. So it belongs here. It has become part of the fabric of American musical culture.

It was important for me to remind people that there's no formula... there's no boundary to R&B music.

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

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.

They have all different names for music. I think the music I'm going to change the style with is going to be really, really big-years and years after I'm gone.

I'm quite an eclectic musician.

I tried to take heavy metal... and balled it up and chopped it in half and really tried to create a new form of energy. I really tried to re-shape extreme music as I see it through my eyes.

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

When I look at music, everything is blurred, and I like it that way. I grew up like that, hanging out with different types of people who listened to so many different types of music. I never wanted to be part of any one clique. I loved it all.

With my music, I don't have to stay in one lane. One day I'm in Motown, and the next day I'm in reggae.

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.

At first, I found the music I was making really hard to find a home for. I felt like my attitude was really British, but not the actual sounds I was making. Back in 2003, when I made 'Galang,' there were no clubs that had an 'anything and everything' attitude.

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

I never thought of us as a punk band, a metal band, or a new wave band. Just as a band band.

For me, great music doesn't just have to fall into one category or one genre and I love appreciating all kinds of music.

When it comes to music, we should be hoping for as outlandish a Republican candidate as we can get.

I think the people who are saying jazz has to sound a particular way, or, 'What you're doing isn't jazz,' are just scared because they can't do it. A lot of them just aren't talented enough to do anything new, honestly.

Everybody in Lynyrd Skynyrd loves different styles of music, and our minds are very open when it comes to writing our songs and making the band true to what the band is, but also stepping out and doing something current.

I had phases of listening to rap and trap, and then I had phases where I'd listen to post-hardcore, rap, grunge, metal... all that. I had different time periods of listening to different music. And now it all clashes together.

Sound-wise, I'm really limitless in the way I write songs. Whatever comes out, comes out. Every song is completely different.