GRiZ Quotes

I changed my mindset and figured, Why not try to be really entertaining instrumentally?

My music's matured so much, I don't have to create any barriers.

I grew up listening to everything. I have such a love for music, but I don't want to make the same album over and over again.

That's the kind of musical freedom I like: jazz, rock, blues, anything. You adopt different attitudes when you play different music.

In the past, I tried to be more of a typical session guitarist. I wasn't so concerned with impressing anybody.

I found the blues too limiting, and classical was too disciplined.

I love that I can play around with all types of music.

I never left music, I just left the music scene.

Once you have an established song, you can really come out of your shell and experiment with the sound you want to make.

I want to explore all genres.

If there's only one genre that it's possible to listen to or possible to see live, then how can you explore different styles? How can you evolve, musically?

I don't jump on to singing every song of mine because I feel that will make my music repetitive.

Like everybody else, I love a good pop song. You know, there's nothing like it. I also just really like music that goes off on extended forays of extrapolation into different areas. So it's kind of nice to be able to move between those two poles.

Reggaeton is what opened the doors for me, and I'm always grateful for that. I'll do reggaeton for life, but I want to show that I'm an artist who can do everything.

We toured for close to three years after 'Undertow' came out, so by the time we started to work on 'AEnima,' we had matured as functional musicians, and that changes your sound completely. Once you have that kind of freedom, an idea will come into your head and you can do it justice.

I love stretching myself musically.

I think I have allowed my voice to experiment with the different genres. And I think that I have just really enjoyed the journey of getting to know my voice and seeing what it's capable of, what it's not capable of.

Now, when we first started, I would be playing something good and then feel like I wasn't doing the right thing and launch into some idiotic cliche. Luckily for me, Bobby was patient.

I've been making music for a long time, since I was very young, but at the same time, I'm still exploring what works for me. I feel like I'm just starting out.

I've seen and learned enough to keep my music fresh and spread out.

I never excluded any genre on my first record.

I've heard some people say that I'm selling out, but I'm not. If I hadn't done 'Black Radio', and just kept on doing just piano trio stuff, I wouldn't be honest with myself; I'd be doing it to please other people. That would be selling out.

My first instrument was my voice. I was always singing and writing melodies when I was a little kid. I just sort of taught myself whatever was around. If there were instruments around, I'd play them. I always liked the idea of not being shown but coming up with my own energetic connection to the instrument.

My music is mostly for the music. And it gives the liberty to do anything which I want. And nobody limits me to one genre of music. But I learn from life and I try to give back to life, in a way, whether it's the thought of the song or whether it's the approach to the arrangement or anything.

Jazz stands for freedom. It's supposed to be the voice of freedom: Get out there and improvise, and take chances, and don't be a perfectionist - leave that to the classical musicians.