Fred Durst Quotes

I just take rock songs and mix it with hip-hop and a little bit of R&B.

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

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.

When we started Poco, we were too country for rock, and we were too rock for country.

Ska is fine. Punk is fine. Putting those two together drove us crazy.

Rock and ambient music might as well reside on opposite sides of the galaxy, so it's almost shocking when a band like Deerhunter melds the two so effectively.

I'm mixing country with kind of a modern twist to it.

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

The music is at this weird intersection of dance music and indie music. It's not quite dancey enough to do a full-blown DJ set, and it wasn't quite rock enough for a rock band. But I guess it's what makes us unique - drawing from a lot of different influences.

My music has always been sort of in between categories. Sometimes record stores - back when there were record stores - they'd put my records in the country music section, but other record stores would put my records in the pop or even the rock section. As long as it's in the store somewhere, I'm OK with it.

We have been trying to play a lot of different kinds of music, and probably the next album will go back more towards the direction where you couldn't classify each song as a certain kind of music. This album you can.

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

I think my music generally transcends a lot of genres.

I love pop and rap. Bringing those two worlds together is always fun.

I think the audience for Limp Bizkit is probably not going to be particularly interested in what we're doing. I don't think they'll find much that satisfies them in what we do.

I thought it would be interesting to play classical music on rock instruments.

I genre-hop quite a lot. I love manipulating genre and deconstructing it and making it irrelevant. Genreless music is great because it means you get to write in any genre that you like.

I have crazy, different influences in my songs. I want rap music, I want Congolese rumba, I want salsa, I want dance music, I want hip-hop music, all mixed into one!

I don't like the idea of 'classical crossover,' even if sometimes I see this category given to what I'm doing.

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

We are aiming to create a one and only new music genre that exceeds the limits of pop and metal music.

Swavey, it puts more than one genre of music together. That's the approach I have with all music I do.

You can't do gospel and rap. Either you're of the gospel music, or you're a rapper. You can't put the two together. You can, but is it right? It's questionable.

I like the idea of blending genres.

There's been so much fusion of genres, whether Hindi and hip or reggaeton and bhangra.