Linda Perry Quotes

When I first started out in this music industry, I was most concerned with freedom. Freedom to produce, freedom to play all the instruments on my records, freedom to say anything I wanted to.

My ethos is musical freedom: to create whatever I want.

If tomorrow I want to release a rock album or I want to release a bachata album, nobody can tell me anything - why can't I?

NBC has not once given me a music note. I get the freedom to do what I want, and that's kind of amazing.

It feels very, very good to make a film freely, to work without having to wait years for script approval, without looking over your shoulder.

My music is pretty versatile; I have a lot of genres and styles. I don't think I should be pigeonholed into one thing. So we'll see where my career goes.

I've been so spoiled in the theater, writing plays where I can just do exactly what I want and nobody messes with me.

I think I prefer producing a little more than DJing because you have more freedom, you can make anything you want; it doesn't necessarily have to be four to the floor. You can go more with your mood, or the atmosphere that you're in.

I don't dictate the solos and I don't dictate the vocal harmonies.

I make music with no boundaries.

When I'm in the studio, there are no boundaries.

Every piece has its own identity which we develop by the rule 'We know no limits.' We follow the inspiration of the moment and don't worry if what we're playing is alternative, progressive or fusion rock.

If you are any competent musician, if you have creative ideas, ideas of songs, of arrangements, in a band like the Stones, where these 2 people do all the things, there is no freedom.

When I go with different producers, and they've thought about what they want to do, I think they feel a little bit more free, because they know almost any sound will work on my record if we pull it together properly - so they don't feel so limited.

Panic! at the Disco, for me, has been an outlet to do whatever. I never felt like there were any rules. It was always carte blanche. I could do whatever I wanted. There were no rules set yet for the band. It just felt right.

In the band Semi-Precious Weapons, I got to sing, wear, and say exactly what I wanted for ten years.

With Alkaline Trio, we are who we are. We never really feel too confined, but when we get together, there is an Alkaline Trio sound, and when I go off and do something on my own, there is an element of freedom that I don't have with the Trio.

To be able to create an album where you are in complete control of your own work is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for an artist.

I've got a comfortable home for my music where I can put out whatever the hell I want, and I feel like the slate is really clean, and I can get away with anything. It's a nice, free feeling.

I would design for anybody who gives me a free hand and who doesn't sit on my head.

When we walk onto that stage I'm not feeling like I'm ruled by any other band.

We wanted to write songs that we really like that incorporate everything. It seems a lot of bands want to stick with one thing. We didn't want to be scared to do anything that we wanted to do. We didn't want anything to hold us back. We wanted no boundaries.

I get to do my own thing with music. I get to write the songs and sing the songs. As an actor, you have to do what someone else tells you to do and say someone else's words. And you're limited by the way you look and music is just more rewarding creatively for me.

I have different sounds... I don't want to be just that girl that sings reggaeton or trap music.

You have to let your musicians in your band be who they are.