O. T. Genasis Quotes

I am trying every genre.

I'm going to be testing waters in all genres.

I needed to explore my talent and versatility and see if I had another side to me, another sound.

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

I try not to get trapped in any one musical or visual style at all.

I don't steer clear of genres. I simply haven't steered myself toward some of them.

Being in several, disparate bands is what I thrive on.

I loved singing rock-and-roll, jazz, anything on radio, anything commercial. I was able to do anything, but I didn't know what direction to go in.

I really want to explore every genre that I can.

I always play so many different styles that I don't think anything I do surprises anyone.

I try to cross as many genres as possible with the same attitude. I want every song to be very clear.

It's important to immerse myself in one thing at a time to do it well, but I could never do one thing only. I will always be a poet and a singer, because I'm interested in bending genres and pushing boundaries of what is considered a poem, what is considered a song.

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

The first five albums I did, I tried a little bit of everything. I was trying not to conform at all.

The good thing about playing the guitar: You can take on different kinds of music. I'm always doing something different from the last thing I did because I have the shortest attention span on earth.

I feel more like an artist than a pop star, and I accidentally fell into what I do. Everything was just an experiment.

All my music sounds the same to me.

It's taken a while for me to figure out my sound. It's tough, coming from DJing, because you know how things are supposed to sound, but you also don't want to be formulaic about it.

To record an album and stick to one specific style isn't really my thing.

I feel like Court Yard Hounds keeps us idling. I think Emily and I function better when we're continually making music and playing, and this is a way to keep doing that.

Of course, I'm open to all kinds of genres. In my head, there are no demarcations.

Urban is not actually my world. It was me trying something out, basically. I come from a gospel background.

The proliferation of styles, genres, and media need not be the death knell of anything. Instead, it's a sign that our acceptance for variation and experimentation has become wider, our interests have become more diverse, and our appetites have become more omnivorous.

I want to explore all genres.

I can go from doing an electronic track to hip-hop to even folk songs. I think people like that variety in me.