Musiq Soulchild Quotes

When I got out of the Nazz, I had it in my mind that simply to be eclectic was an important aspect of making music. It was something that I derived from The Beatles.

My last two records that I made were both quite pointed in one direction and I think I do my best stuff when it's all over the map, when there's a couple traditional things, a couple pretty rocking things.

Swavey is a musical genre that I came up with to describe artists who are too talented to stay in a box with their music.

I don't have one favourite band. I like everything.

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.

Where my tastes in music are concerned, I'm a real maximalist.

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

I'm so happy people are seeing the eclectic side of me. I'm really honored to be able to push my voice into different sounds. Otherwise it all gets a bit samey same.

I just loved classical music, but I also loved playing rock guitar, and I loved playing piano, so it was a natural thing that those things would merge at some point.

Maybe one day music will just be music, and there won't be these categories; it'll just be different shades of music.

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

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

I think my music generally transcends a lot of genres.

I'm not going to choose between classical, Broadway or pop. I would love to stay where I am now - a mix of everything.

I want to expand jazz; I don't want to keep the audience limited. I want to reach people who have never come to a jazz concert before. One way to do that is by making records that have a lot of different kinds of music on them.

I've tried to maintain a certain bit of originality in that I don't want to necessarily sing like a soulful gospel singer or like an ethereal Celtic singer - I never wanted to be pulled into any one direction.

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

I really wanted the first record to be different from what I'd done with Genesis, so we were trying to do things in different styles.

Everybody in Lynyrd Skynyrd loves different styles of music, and our minds are very open when it comes to writing our songs and making the band true to what the band is, but also stepping out and doing something current.

It's important to me to not stay too confined to any specific sonic space. There is something really magical about straight folk music - it's not that I don't like it, it's just that I like so much music, I hear so many different things, and I want to try more. I don't want to be confined.

I just like blending all the genres together but blending them up in a good way. I try to be as free as I can with it.

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

I have crazy, different influences in my songs. I want rap music, I want Congolese rumba, I want salsa, I want dance music, I want hip-hop music, all mixed into one!

People should listen to my music if they are into a lot of different genres and kind of want to get it all at once, if they want to listen to a story, an interesting story about somebody else.

I don't have a genre because I play lots of different music that people would say are different genres.