YBN Nahmir Quotes

I'm quite an eclectic musician.

It was really terrific but Foreigner was nothing like Yes and that style did not suit our music.

'Welcome to Atlanta' was a song I wanted to do on my first album. The idea was for me and Outkast to do it, but I could never come up with a beat for us to do it. Outkast beats and my beats were very different.

I never had a problem moving between jazz and hip-hop.

I don't mind Ed Sheeran, but I wouldn't want to be compared to a guy that builds his song around a guitar, since we do not have a guitar in our band.

I love working with different artist with different styles and different producers with different sounds, creativity is everything.

I've always had a close connection to both rock and classical music.

Times were changing. Clothes were changing. Morals were changing. We went from romantic loves songs like I used to do to rock 'n roll. Now that has changed to rap. So, there's always a new generation with new music.

What I do isn't black music; it's just my music.

So, maybe you don't see blues so much in Styx's music but it is definitely part of Tommy's early music.

I talk about life, and I make universal music with an American style - and that's what I do.

If you're an impressionistic painter and you want to paint expressionism, you've got to change. You've got to figure out a way to do it and do it. If you've been playing jazz all your life and you want to start to play rock n' roll, blues, then do it.

I've recorded in Portuguese, too. I didn't set out to just sing ballads or romantic songs.

To work with different singers gives us creative freedom because we can experiment with different sounds on every song.

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

Musically, I try not to box things in. I try to just play around this spectrum of influences: soul, jazz, and hip-hop.

I have very different kinds of songs - there are these film-music-type of songs, and then metal, metal, metal, ha-ha! These are different kinds of styles, so not every musician can play both types of music.

I listen to all kinds of music and sometimes I try to do something that's referential to an era or a genre, but it still sounds like me.

Who's to say a blues man can't play rock and roll?

I wanted to write songs from the ground up, I wanted to sit at a piano and build around that. But I still have a lot of love for hip-hop, so I want to do more collaborations in that sense.

I like making all kinds of music, it really depends on the moment. Sometimes I feel like making a weird trap song, and sometimes I can't even attach a track to a genre.

Ultimately it's just music - whether I'm catering to the Bollywood audience or the indie audience. I just approach every type of music the way I am, and how my personality is.

I've experimented with so many different sounds, it's difficult to say what the Donovan sound really is, but it's essentially my voice and guitars.

I got a reputation for being 'eclectic' or some damn thing like that, but to me, the different kinds of music I play are all the same stuff - good time music - and it is the only stuff I can do.

I try to not go, 'I'm writing a pop song.' Music is inherently genre-bending.