Mavis Staples Quotes

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

I really want to explore every genre that I can.

It's important to me to not stay too confined to any specific sonic space. There is something really magical about straight folk music - it's not that I don't like it, it's just that I like so much music, I hear so many different things, and I want to try more. I don't want to be confined.

I'm just tryna be honest about all the things that I dig in my music. It's not just this over here, it's also that over there.

I've always worked on all different types of music, some with specific project goals and deadlines and some not. Sometimes I would write a piece of music that is almost like a film score or weird electro pieces, wherever the muse took me, and I still do that.

I just like music all the way around the board. I can't stick to one thing - I've got to move around.

It's so wide; that's what I love most about my career. It's been varied, and the music has been varied, because I find myself getting bored pretty easily. So for me, to work in the studio has been great. I didn't go on the road; I just worked on a different project every day, a different kind of music, and that's the challenge I love.

I love to get to that place where I don't know what kind of music I'm doing; I don't know if it's any good. I don't know if it's anything. It's a big question mark. The idea is to have interesting results. That's my bottom line.

I feel like my music has become a lot of things. It's hard to label the evolution, but I like there to be an evolution. I just like to paint with all different kinds of colors.

Every album that I've attempted, I suppose, has been different - it's bound to be.

Always try and play with as many people as possible, even if it's not your style of music, because you will learn a lot.

Music takes me where I go. I'm always open to wherever the journey will take me.

Of course, I'm open to all kinds of genres. In my head, there are no demarcations.

I listen to a lot of different kinds of music, and I feel like I can pull ideas from practically anything. You name it - I'll probably like it.

Really, I get inspired by just switching projects and instrumentation and things like that - that creative part of just being different every time is really what inspires me.

I'll never stick to one sound, I switch it up.

I think the people are just looking for freedom in music...There's a lot of she-bop she-bop going on out there. Maybe they're tired of that same old thing.

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'm just experimenting with every different type of music you can imagine and seeing where my voice lies and what sounds best. I think when I do finally do the album it will be very eclectic - just loads of different stuff on it. That's what I am hoping.

I really like to think of each record as its own thing. So, for sure, but I hate the idea of being stuck in anything. Like I want to do a Hawkwind-style record too, or a noise rock record or a hardcore record. Why not, you know? I would just not want to keep heading too far in one direction, without pulling off and going the other way.

I never excluded any genre on my first record.

I'm really open to doing music. We just have to figure out what kind of music it's going to be - something where I don't feel compromised.

I can't re-define music every week!

I just want to keep making music, recording and trying different things. I don't want to do the same thing all the time.

When I return to the writing process after being away from it for a while, the first part of it always is being honest with myself: What am I into right now? Is it rock bands and guitars, is it noise, is it dance beats and electronics? Is it space, is it clutter?