Rufus Wainwright Quotes

I love stretching myself musically.

I'm not really allowed to talk about the Dead though. I think when we are at our best, we definitely do things that the Dead or no other band could do. We explore things and take things to the extreme.

Just the type of music that was around at the same time as I was writing. Some of it was wicked, definitely. But there was just one direction which I thought could be pushed that no one was pushing.

We always want to do covers, but we found it kind of boring to do covers of bands in our genre, and we were always asked to do those.

I don't want to limit myself musically. It would be really limiting if we'd neglect something we really want to do, like explore other styles of music.

I grew up listening to everything. I have such a love for music, but I don't want to make the same album over and over again.

I've seen and learned enough to keep my music fresh and spread out.

From my time in 'King Crimson,' I'd describe a Progressive band as one that keeps trying to break musical barriers, and keeps trying to do new music.

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

All along, I did what I was comfortable doing, which was to play the music I enjoyed and try to stretch the parameters a bit. Country and bluegrass and folk were my foundation.

The music that I've made in the past has had strong contemporary country roots, but I think moving on in music, I will branch out from that a bit.

Jazz is not the format where I want to stay, but it really is a starting point for me.

Creating any type of art is all about mood. I've been making extreme music in one fashion or another for decades. And truthfully, Down has a big enough fan base to where I could remain content to do only that, but music is a vast territory and I am an explorer. And I'm a lover of all things considered extreme in music.

But that's something that I like about scoring film: it makes me reach out of the parameters of my self, it requires me to do things musically that I wouldn't normally do left to my own devices.

I think to stay in one sound is a career killer.

I really wanted the first record to be different from what I'd done with Genesis, so we were trying to do things in different styles.

What happened with reggaeton is that many artists kept recycling the same sound. But there are a lot of reggaeton artists that are still in their prime - like Daddy Yankee - because they've chosen to continue growing, to offer people more than just reggaeton. That's where I learned to always be able to try something new and not be afraid.

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.

I think it's really important to show new styles of song and music. I think that's what people want to see and hear from me.

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.

The older I get, the more interest I have in writing other kinds of music.

People come in because they like 'Old Town Road.' They'll find out that I'm just not going to stick to that.

Musically, I'm always gonna take it a little farther, and Lord willing, people are gonna get that and understand that: that there's not really one genre I'm trying to be in, but just as a producer, as a writer, as an artist, that I'm planning on going farther.

A lot of people from my generation of music are so focused on playing things correctly or to perfection that they're stuck in that safe place.

I am optimistic about the future of music.