Ski Mask the Slump God Quotes

Being genre-bending doesn't really cross my mind. I don't consider anyone I work with a specific genre.

A lot of singers find a musical genre people like and stick with it. That's being a conformist. I sing ballads, rock, salsa, rap.

I've sort of made a reputation by high-stepping my way out of genre. As soon as somebody says, 'He does this,' I'm not standing there anymore.

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

I've certainly never liked the idea of being put in a box. I loved being part of shows like 'American Idiot' and 'In the Heights,' and I take pride in being able to sing different styles, not just 'Old Man River.'

I don't really care that much about genre labels. I tend to write across a variety of different genres.

The goal has been not to get pigeonholed. I like working in different genres. I'm gonna try to be entertaining and funny and do my usual thing.

I don't want to be held down by genres so much.

I don't really like to put stuff in a box as far as genre-specific.

To record an album and stick to one specific style isn't really my thing.

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 make all types of music. People wanna put me in a little box, and they get mad when I don't stay in there.

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

I try to stay away from any genre. I like to just make music, and it just is what it is.

I think I'm always conscious of not letting things fit into a specific box. Being a filmmaker and trying to chart a career, you never want anyone to be able to pigeonhole you into one specific thing.

I feel comfortable in my pop shoes. They let me walk in any direction. I like to go from one extreme to the other. One day I feel that I want to do a song with reggaeton influence, I do it. The next day I feel I need to do a song with rock elements to it, I do it.

Music is my only guide. I don't care if people pigeonhole me. Miles Davis is my hero. He covered Cindy Lauper and Michael Jackson, and he didn't give a hoot about what the purists said.

I don't like to be labeled, to be anything. I've made the mistake before myself of labeling my music, but it's counter-productive.

I am not concerned with truth, nor with conventional notions of what is beautiful.

I try not to get trapped in any one musical or visual style at all.

I'd love to do a sci-fi movie, a western, or an espionage thriller. But I'm not going to limit myself. If a good script comes along, I'm not going to discount it because it doesn't fit into one of these genres.

I was raised around a lot of artists, musicians, photographers, painters and people that were in theater. Just having the art-communal hippie experience as a child, there wasn't a clear line that was drawn. We celebrated creative experience and creative expression. We didn't try and curtail it and stunt any of that kind of growth.

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

But I've always liked to be the kind of drummer and musician who likes to go outside of what's expected of me, and I've always been able to do more than you necessarily hear with every band I've ever played in.

What I love about Beyonce is she's not a slave to a genre of music.