Jade Bird Quotes

I've always had a close connection to both rock and classical music.

Rock & roll has kept us alive for all these years. But we just love country music. It's in our blood.

I don't like rock. Honestly, I like to listen to it, but it's not for me. There's a lot of musical genres that I find interesting, but they don't suit me. It's one thing to listen to different genres, but to perform a genre that isn't yours is counterproductive.

Growing up with country, R&B, gospel, and classical music from my grandmother and pop, Tuskegee was the perfect melting pot for my influences as a writer.

I have been influenced by music. I grew up listening to blues, jazz and all.

I learned to love bluegrass, but my first love stayed hard country.

I think everyone has such varied taste in music.

Music is a personal preference. Everyone's free to connect and like whatever they want.

I don't have to save rock. I don't even like rock that much.

When I was growing up, the blues did seem too simple to me. I was just a muso.

Many cities make music, but no city breathes music quite like Memphis. The songs and sounds that come from here are uniquely American.

Lauryn Hill, P-Funk, Marvin Gaye, Public Enemy - I have a very diverse palate for music. I can go from Judy Garland to Jimi Hendrix to Stevie Wonder to Rachmaninoff. I just love great music.

The Midwest is a musical melting pot and the source and birthplace of several musical genres.

I was a pop freak. I love music. Of course, I knew soul because I grew up in it. Writing it and everything. I love soul. But I love a tune that has some meat in it. Something I could hang my hat on. Because music is universal. Therefore, I felt no boundaries.

The whole path of American music has been so much about the recognition of stylistic diversity, and the recognition of the importance of music which was from one of the vernacular traditions.

The kind of music or the kind of arrangements that I do, the kind of musicians I choose, is just what I like to hear.

I love... different kinds of music. I like classical music and pop music. I like alternative, and I like rap, hip-hop, and I kind of collected all these things that I love, and they infused my sensibilities, and I just wanted to sing because it felt like it needed to come out of me.

Too much emphasis is put on American roots music when people try and place me. You know, I grew up listening to punk.

I grew up listening to everything. And rock and roll has always been a big, big part of it - as big a part of what I do as any other type of music.

I know music is subjective.

My voice is a combination of how I grew up and what I was listening to growing up. I like a lot of different kinds of music and am always being inspired in different ways by different artists for different reasons.

I didn't want to go out and change anything. I just wanted to make the music that was part of my background, which was rock and blues and hip-hop.

Music has an intrinsic value that touches Americans - they love their music, and want more.

We are just fans of music, we are not fans of a specific kind of music. We just happen to be a rock band. Until we explain ourselves, sometimes people don't understand why we limit ourselves to just being a rock band. It's because that is what we like doing.

Music is entirely subjective. I was thinking that for myself, for songwriting and what I like to listen to, to help motivate me as a songwriter, as a musician, there are certain things I lean towards and certain things I don't.