Sam Hunt Quotes

I don't care about the rules. In fact, if I don't break the rules at least 10 times in every song then I'm not doing my job properly.

I'd love to do the straight music thing, but that's kind of against our mission, which is to rebel against the serious singer-songwriter mentality.

I'm disregarding all the rules I've seen as people approach writing music. I'm trying to break them.

I think I'm always trying to subvert conventions, and sometimes it's more successful than others.

I've had a lot of folks tell me that my songs weren't quite country because they didn't really sound like anybody that had come along and done it before me. I felt a little out of place for a while.

I wanted to go so I could learn the rules and conventions in order to break them later on.

I do like artfully breaking rules.

For anybody to say well this is not Hip Hop and that's not Hip Hop, that is not the way the formula was laid down. It was for the people who were going to continue take anything musically and string it along.

I think my whole generation's mission is to kill the cliche.

The compulsion to do the opposite of what you are told does not lend itself to many occupations outside the entertainment industry. Within the industry, it is unlikely that you will be very successful without it.

Being an artist is in part an act of rupture.

It was important for me to remind people that there's no formula... there's no boundary to R&B music.

What makes bebop legitimate is the fact that when it was done, it was illegitimate.

I have always been driven to buck the system, to innovate, to take things beyond where they've been.

I found out that total creativity involves a certain intellectual rebellion - not to become a criminal, but somehow. to be totally creating, you have to do things that are a little bit forbidden. You have to feel free, and we know freedom is a hard thing to get.

You need the past as a guideline. The history of music is a good basis, but to escape that stuff, that tortuous rulebook, you have to learn it first. It's kind of like religion - once you've written the Bible, that's it, move on.

After 'Mosaic,' I think a lot of people didn't know what my next record was going to be. And that's what I love. I just love doing music because I'm not going to follow the patterns and formulas of Music Row.

This sounds really craven on some level, but on some level, a lot of what I'm doing is trying to not do a typical TV show.

I'm a complete deviant. All creative work breaks new ground.

I'm not trying to obey the rules of radio.

I did not want to do things the way they are usually done in Hindi cinema.

I've always had creative freedom. Instrumental rock wasn't really a genre, but the success of 'Surfing With the Alien' legitimized my approach.

Punk was such an exciting time because there were no rules. You could go and knock on Sun Ra's door - and he was in the phonebook, under Ra!

We do things differently. You don't have to worry about being part of a particular genre. You just go for it.

We're a band that's never been okay with the status quo. In a way, it's allowed us to be more open and confrontational in our music.