Julien Baker Quotes

I'm just expanding my sound and making it bigger.

As I've gotten older, as I've gotten familiar with all different types of music, stuff that I didn't like when I was younger I actually kind of like now.

I've seen and learned enough to keep my music fresh and spread out.

The music that I've made in the past has had strong contemporary country roots, but I think moving on in music, I will branch out from that a bit.

Most people my age, their musical life ended in the '80s. They stick with what they know. But my tastes are much broader. And I don't want to stop learning.

In the '70s, my playing was completely untutored, but it sounded good to me, and I tried to find ways to make those very simple things work in more ambitious contexts.

If you got in my truck, you were listening to country music, and that's the way it was for a long time. I'm a little more open to other sources of music now, a lot more. But for the formative years, I was just very into country.

Music is music - it makes no difference what it is. I can like Slipknot and Public Enemy equally.

I started out in rock, but I didn't want to stay there, and haven't.

I think that everybody likes different kinds of music, and that's absolutely fine.

My mum and dad used to listen to a lot of R&B and soul, so this was the way I grew up. Hip-hop, of course. But then as I grew older, I started listening to everything.

Music is constantly developing and changing.

I grew up listening pretty much just to pop music. But the older I've gotten, the more varied my musical tastes have become.

I think that the only goals that we try to set for ourselves is to evolve musically.

Music needs to move forward.

I think that every band tries to mature their sound through their existence, you know?

I grew up listening to everything. I have such a love for music, but I don't want to make the same album over and over again.

Now I listen to all kinds of music except rap, which all sounds the same to me.

My musical tastes change every week.

A lot of times, when a band finds success with a certain style or sound, they have a really hard time breaking away from that to grow as artists.

I'm not really into gothic music, it's not really my type of scene but each to their own. I listen to pretty much anything.

I was a metalhead and then I was into the rap and then I was a metalhead again.

I can't see myself just endlessly singing the same songs over and over again.

In between 15 and 20 - probably at around 17 - my interests switched from hard rock to punk rock. And then by 20 they were circling out of punk rock back into Black Sabbath, Led Zeppelin, the stuff that I didn't get to when I was younger.

Growing up, I didn't really like folk music - I wasn't a fan of Bob Dylan. I grew up mostly listening to rap and hip-hop; it was this new form of music.