KT Tunstall Quotes

I knew that I tend to always gravitate to the indie side of things.

I'm not making music for people who like Disney shows. I make music for people who like music.

There is a pop element to what I do, but I'm going for a deeper, more left-of-center vibe. That's the sound I've always been looking for.

There is a long and interesting tradition of really marginal left-field music that becomes commercially successful. And I will, for a brief minute, fit into that tradition.

The folk that you get on Radio 1 isn't the sort of thing that I'm into: it's kind of too uptempo and jaunty for me. I prefer a bit of atmosphere and a bit of darkness.

My music isn't mainstream music.

I'm totally up for experimental music. I'm up for music that they don't play on the radio, and I take in all of it. But my thing, the thing that comes most natural to me, is making the stuff that has a melody; it has a soul to it, yet it's head music.

Those that know me know that I'm not 100% in love with commercial pop music. It's not my preferred genre - I don't do squeaky clean pop.

When I was growing up, I was always looking for the most willfully uncommercial music: Whether it was Captain Beefheart or Frank Zappa or King Crimson, that's what attracted me.

I seriously hate pop music and all things super-commercial, so I'd be hard pressed to feel embarrassed by anything I listen to. Besides, I have a three-year-old, so I don't have time for guilty pleasures anyway!

We love playing music but we're too weird to play music.

I feel that my ear candy is a little different from the ear candy most people are receiving right now.

You know, the BBC had not been particularly generous in its deliverance of blues and esoteric kinds of music.

I don't think my music's as traditional as people make it out.

As a DJ, it's my job to break new music. And instead of it just being the stuff that's coming from the major labels or the big pop records, I've always gravitated to something that's just different, you know?

This music isn't Top 40, we really stand out from anyone.

I never got a chance to do Tom Waits or PJ Harvey kind of stuff in the Gaslight Anthem.

Bjork has this kind of abstraction and formalism that you associate with art music or avant-garde music.

I love truly forward-thinking music, and I'm not even sure I'd describe my work as that, even.

I enjoy independent music, even more than Bollywood.

We are aiming to create a one and only new music genre that exceeds the limits of pop and metal music.

I don't see myself as a pop artist. Like, when you hear 'pop,' you're like, 'Oh, bubblegum, jumpy little girly stuff,' and I feel like, 'Uh-uh. That's not me.'

There are always young bands playing in their garages. A lot of punk rock is not going to be in the mainstream. It's below the radar. The beauty of it is that you're not supposed to always know. It's subterranean.

I wanted to make a record that worked against the hypnagogic paradigm, for sure.

One of the most prevalent and undermentioned genres of music is what is known as noise. You can find it all over the world happening in basements, small venues and even some festivals. Often blown off or belittled by critics, the form for the most part goes unheard and unnoticed.