Himesh Reshammiya Quotes

The melodies I come up with, they're not normal.

I've always liked to be the kind of drummer and musician who likes to go outside of what's expected of me.

To some degree, yeah, because I have to play a certain number of originals that might be considered avant-garde material. I realize though, that only a few people in the audience actually know what that music is, or understand it.

You hear ten seconds of a song, and you know it's OutKast. There's a strangeness about it because it's catchy, but it's not just pop for the sake of pop. They're pushing the envelope.

I used to like Lady Gaga. I still love her. But what I like about LMFAO is that they're completely outside of the box; they're completely different. They're not ridiculous, but they are not afraid of it. And also, it's a certain type of artistry.

I wanted to make sounds that I'd never heard before.

I get very frustrated by this term 'genre exercise.' I mean, what exactly is that? Genre is not really relevant when you are writing a song; hopefully you are doing it to explore something, to create something, and I don't agree that any of my albums are genre exercises.

I've had a lot of folks tell me that my songs weren't quite country because they didn't really sound like anybody that had come along and done it before me. I felt a little out of place for a while.

I associate creativity with independent music.

It's a very subjective, personal, instinctive approach as musicians of saying, 'We don't want to replace what's around; we just want to widen the possibilities.'

All these other nations seem to appreciate what I'm doing and they want me to play the furthest out things.

I think its so cool that you can pick up the guitar and create something that didn't exist 5 minutes ago. You can write something that no ones ever heard before. You have music at your fingertips.

To keep creating something with this type of music, you have to take it out of the box.

I refuse to make uninspired music.

I wanted to make my sophomore film as different as possible. I didn't want to be pigeonholed. I didn't want to be identifiable.

I made the tenor sax - there's nobody plays like me and I don't play like anybody else.

I only choose musicians who I think will emerge, can emerge, with their own character, while still going along with the tune in question.

When I begin working on a production, I don't really think about my previous album or albums. I try to have a real creative process.

All my favorite bands are the ones that push the limits and boundaries.

Ram Gopal Varma cannot have a genre at all. He creates genres.

I say most of my music is very trial-and-error.

What I like is finding new angles on genres.

When I heard Flying Lotus, I was like, 'Wow, okay, everything can be off the grid.'

Being associated with songs that push boundaries is amazing. If the rest of my career consists of a majority of songs that are experimental, I'll be a happy man.

I feel like with '2.5,' I created another style that nobody else is coming with.