Sarah Brightman Quotes

Everybody in Lynyrd Skynyrd loves different styles of music, and our minds are very open when it comes to writing our songs and making the band true to what the band is, but also stepping out and doing something current.

I love hip-hop and soul, but I desperately want to challenge it and see what I can bring to it.

You'll find little schools of musicians experimenting with different ways of making music in Brooklyn, all through Manhattan, in Queens, in Jersey, you know? The city is still bubbling with creativity.

I'm very, very open to experimenting with different people and trying to find different methods of writing and making music.

I like to experiment when it comes to music.

I just like blending all the genres together but blending them up in a good way. I try to be as free as I can with it.

I feel my voice can fit in many things so it's very interesting to combine things and music styles.

I love working with different artist with different styles and different producers with different sounds, creativity is everything.

I feel like my music is like - there are always new influences in there.

Musicians are always eclectic. Musicians are always curious and hungry for new things.

I see music as one language. If one musical form eats its own tail, it dies. So it needs to be a mongrel, it needs to be hybridised.

Hip hop is doing the new rock thing; there are no rules. They can do anything, really. And that's inspiring.

Musicians tend to get bored playing the same thing over and over, so I think it's natural to experiment.

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.

We don't want to box ourselves within any type of genre, you know? Whatever feels good, if it moves us and we like it, we get on it and make it our own. That's what we do.

The only intention I've ever had creatively, as a musician, is to be as different from myself as possible.

A lot of Arabic composers such as Mohammed Abdel Wahab mixed sounds and instruments from all over the world. It's important to be able to propose new ways and new sounds without being stigmatised, censored or put aside.

People come in because they like 'Old Town Road.' They'll find out that I'm just not going to stick to that.

As an artist, you tend to gravitate to the opposite. I know, when I finish a song or an album, I'm interested in doing something completely new. It doesn't always happen, but that's the idea. My poor fans - I don't know if they love that or hate that.

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'd written songs with lots of people, from one spectrum to the other.

In terms of music, I can try anything I want, even something that doesn't work at all, because I'm not putting my career in jeopardy.

I can't re-define music every week!

I'm proud that with 'Bright Eyes' we've always experimented and tried to make a different record every time out.

They believed you can't mix rock, country, and rap, and that crossover is dead. I always knew it would work. And it will always work as long as you're really into it and like what you're doing.