Jennifer Nettles Quotes

Growing up, I always liked so many different sounds from so many different genres - the different aspects they could bring.

I never set out to be part of a genre, because I listen to all types of music.

Despite being a classical musician, I keep poking my nose in other genres of music.

I had phases of listening to rap and trap, and then I had phases where I'd listen to post-hardcore, rap, grunge, metal... all that. I had different time periods of listening to different music. And now it all clashes together.

I like pop music, and I like really weird, strange stuff. It just didn't feel like there was anyone doing both.

I really like jazz and soul, but I also love so many other types of music, and I didn't want to be afraid to blend and experiment.

Me as an artist, I've ventured off into doing all types of music. I'll do a jazz album, you know what I mean.

If someone is a straight jazzhead, or a straight metalhead, or straight classical, they have a very narrow range of what they allow into their lives. But the people who listen to what we put out into the world have to be open-minded. Because we're so pluralist.

I've done the country, done the pop-rock, done the super-hard electro.

I have a very eclectic taste when it comes to music.

I love mixing up my genres.

I'm quite an eclectic musician.

I'm influenced by all kinds of music. I have a very diverse iPod. You never know if I've got it on shuffle. You never know what you are going to hear next. I like all genres.

I'm a bit suspicious of people who are narrow in their musical tastes.

For better or worse, I've always been curious musically. Whether it's opera or Judy Garland or pop, I've deliberately sought those things out. I've never wanted to do the same things over and over. Some think I've accomplished what I set out to do, and others consider me a dilettante.

When I look at music, everything is blurred, and I like it that way. I grew up like that, hanging out with different types of people who listened to so many different types of music. I never wanted to be part of any one clique. I loved it all.

I've done so many hip-hop albums already I got tired of just hip-hop.

I certainly have a fascination with pop music as a musical form, not necessarily as a lifelong commitment. I guess you could say I'm like a Casanova of music. I can't seem to settle down with one musical form.

I like to sing covers of songs that are at the extreme ends from what I usually listen to.

But I'm also a music lover, and I'll always try a lot of different things.

I think to stay in one sound is a career killer.

None of my songs sound the same. None of them. I take R&B beats and put it as a rap song or hip-hop beats and put them as a R&B song. A lot of people are boring. I don't like boring music. Everybody sounds the same, like they copying.

People often ask us if we had direct influences. Honestly, just a lot of different music - not necessarily individual people. We listen to anything from Bob Dylan to Massive Attack to Aerosmith to En Vogue. We very much enjoy all that music.

Growing up in Miami, having these different cultures and being inspired in so many ways musically has let me have a very long career, 'cause just when you think I'm gonna do this type of record, I go and do something else.

Music is music. It doesn't matter if I am trying to aim at country or trying to aim at pop.