Bobby Bones Quotes

The most important thing is that you honor that musical integrity, whether you make music that sounds like ABBA or you make music that sounds like Void.

In the past, I tried to be more of a typical session guitarist. I wasn't so concerned with impressing anybody.

What is nice about country music today is that most artists are not trying to do something everybody else is doing. They really are trying to develop their own uniqueness.

When I perform, I like to immerse myself in the music, and I just try to get off on the diversity of music.

At the end of the day I want to be the guy who experienced music in all type of ways, with hip-hop being the roots of it.

Rock's so good to me. Rock is my child and my grandfather.

I want to try different things but, most importantly, always be true to my roots and keep it organic. I'm never going to leave bachata behind. I'm always going to be a bachatero first.

You're not going to hear me do a rap song, you're not going to hear me do a jazz song. We have to be true to our roots, do what we do, and try to do it a little better each time.

I'll never quit playing country music, or at least acknowledging it, always, as the cornerstone of what I am.

All along, I did what I was comfortable doing, which was to play the music I enjoyed and try to stretch the parameters a bit. Country and bluegrass and folk were my foundation.

You have to open your mind. I like the ability to express myself in a deep way. It's the closest music to our humanity - it's like a folk music that rises up out of a culture.

Music is thousands and thousands of years old and I don't think that basic, primitive connection to the language of music ever changes.

I've always tried to defend the idea that the blues doesn't have to be sung by a person who comes from Mississippi, as I did.

I listen to many forms of music. And I come from a very particular style and tradition of music, which has certain elements that are absolutely unique and, therefore, important to the world.

Jazz has a tradition that has enriched the culture in America. The intellectualism of it does nothing but make you think on a higher level and make you a better person if you engage in the music and let it do what it does when it is played at its highest level.

That's how I want to be with stuff: I always want to be in country music, first and foremost, forever.

I still dabble in different types of music, but I'm sticking to my Country roots.

Music is the embodiment of my soul. When I play, I'm not performing a song: I'm becoming it.

I like hearing fiddles, steel guitar, acoustics up loud - really rock & roll stuff but with a country sound behind it. That's just who I am. I'm not trying to prove a point; I am just doing what I like. But I don't have any problems with any other artist coming in and doing their own thing.

It took me a long time to find my own voice, even after I started making my own music.

I do feel a little embarrassed and ashamed that I was sort of saying, "Oh, yes, I used to do country music, but I didn't inhale." Which is not true at all. I inhaled the hell out of country music.

I'm totally open to exploring different types of music. I just have to always remember to be true to who I am.

If it's got the feeling, if the music moves you or not, it doesn't matter what the genre is to me.

I think every album you have to stretch further and further, give people another piece of you. But then I always try to deviate from the norm.

Hopefully I'm bringing to rock n' roll the kind of spontaneity that I love, and always believed rock and roll stands for.