Randy Jackson Quotes

My music is a direct reflection of the eclectic person I am. I don't like to be stuck in an R&B box.

I really love music that's on the periphery of not fitting into a clear genre. I felt like I was constantly being described as something I didn't really feel like I identified with.

When I started writing, I just wanted to do something different and creative. I first thought neo-soul was a good pathway for me, so I tried that out but realized I didn't want to be placed in that box.

I just don't feel limited by genre.

We don't want to box ourselves within any type of genre, you know? Whatever feels good, if it moves us and we like it, we get on it and make it our own. That's what we do.

From our music in general, we've always fought the idea that we had to fit into a box or fit into a certain category.

I think people have come to know that I am not comfortable in a box, you know, and that I love music.

I don't really like to stand in one spot. People say that you have your lane or a certain type of music. I don't believe that. You choose your own lane, whichever one you want, then the people decide whether it's good or not.

Music is such an intensely personal thing for me, and I knew if I was going to do it, it would be in my own way.

I didn't get into music to become a blues musician, or a country musician. I'm a singer-songwriter. In my book that means I get to do whatever I want.

The music I turn out these days is the kind of music I want to hear myself.

I make the kind of music I like.

I don't really believe in the type of pressure that people are wanting to put on the type of music that I make.

I think my music generally transcends a lot of genres.

A musician should only sound like what they do, and no two musicians sound the same. It's an individual-feel thing, you know?

I think it would be a shame for any writer to let their publishers in any way corral them into a single genre.

I'm putting everything on the line in being able to express myself in a different way than rappers normally do. They might say, 'It's rap' or 'It's R&B,' but I'm stepping outside the box and making music for me and making music for the fans to understand me. I'm going the extra distance to be able to come across different.

I made a point when I made the Ugly Casanova record to not write a song and then say, 'This is a Modest Mouse song' or 'This is an Ugly Casanova song.' The people who were open to it not being a Modest Mouse record liked it.

I think that was the whole idea behind doing the solo record was to be able to do musically whatever I wanted to do.

There's not a lot of art forms where you can control your presentation and your ideas.

We always thought we had to follow a certain theme but I don't agree with that anymore. I think the fans deserve a wider variety of music.

No one can pigeon-hole me because I play everything, and I did that on purpose.

I don't want to be stuck to any specific genre.

I think my music covers a broader sound than just 'Tropical House'... My goal is to simply be a great producer in my own right without being pigeonholed.

I hate when I get pinned down to a genre. I have a sound, a lane I want to go down, but I never want to be stuck in my song choices.