David Russell Quotes

What is nice about country music today is that most artists are not trying to do something everybody else is doing. They really are trying to develop their own uniqueness.

It's either you finna create your own wave, you finna sound like me or you finna sound like G Herbo, you finna sound like Chance The Rapper, you finna sound like Juice Wrld. You ain't gonna get too far 'cause you sound like somebody. So, create your own lane and do your own style.

One of our biggest pet peeves is listening to bands that use harmony guitars for the sake of it. If you can't figure out how do something different than Maiden, UFO, or even Boston, then what's the point?

The most important thing is that you honor that musical integrity, whether you make music that sounds like ABBA or you make music that sounds like Void.

No two people on earth are alike, and it's got to be that way in music or it isn't music.

The Beatles never sounded intimidated by their idols. They never interpreted old rock; they simply played it as well and as joyfully as they knew how. On 'Rock 'n' Roll,' John Lennon does nothing but interpret old rock.

I study what's happening in music. I want to sound different than everybody else.

Don't be afraid to play what you feel and what you think no matter what it is. If you play long enough, you start to move past your influences and find your own music.

A lot of times, people just want to be more extreme than the next band or the next person, and that's all they focus on. That's kind of lost on me.

I don't want to sound like Ross; I don't want to sound like Puff. I want to make my own music: French Montana.

Aaron Copland was a man that had a very specific point of view about what music should be which was that, he felt that new music should have the composer should show a personality in his music.

In other words, musicians know that going back to the Spoonful, what we were doing was not copying.

Composers shouldn't think too much - it interferes with their plagiarism.

In the past, I tried to be more of a typical session guitarist. I wasn't so concerned with impressing anybody.

Any good music must be an innovation.

I've never understood people who play up the artifice of music.

Music should not be a contest, it should be an individual thing that each band is putting out from within themselves.

Composers are very individual creatures.

What I ended up learning was that I had to do what I do well, and do it really well and say, 'Maybe there is no pop music that sounds like this now, but I can make it so maybe tomorrow what I like can be what everybody likes.'

I don't think there's such a difference between older and newer music as there is between one composer and another.

I don't think I could ever be in a band if we just had to go out there and play the record note for note. I'd give up. I'd become a banker.

I get bored of music really easily, so I always try and make music that makes sense, but then it's just a little bit wrong.

I've always been a good imitator. I love music. But I'm just not that original.

A lot of people go, "I'm influenced by the Beatles and Zeppelin," and they just sound like a karaoke.

Each musical finds its own way.