Tessanne Chin Quotes

I'm so happy people are seeing the eclectic side of me. I'm really honored to be able to push my voice into different sounds. Otherwise it all gets a bit samey same.

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

If you're an impressionistic painter and you want to paint expressionism, you've got to change. You've got to figure out a way to do it and do it. If you've been playing jazz all your life and you want to start to play rock n' roll, blues, then do it.

I guess I always think the people that know me or fans that have followed me and know my solo work would know that I've always had really eclectic tastes - even in Motley, dude.

I always want people to expect the unexpected, to hear me in records that have nothing to do with bachata. 'Golden' is the golden opportunity for them to appreciate me on other records.

Ultimately it's just music - whether I'm catering to the Bollywood audience or the indie audience. I just approach every type of music the way I am, and how my personality is.

I don't think that because l'm a composer I only have to compose music.

Now I don't want to feel cornered as an actor, because I've got a wider range than that.

I don't want to be held down by genres so much.

I love mixing up my genres.

I'm quite an eclectic musician.

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

Creating any type of art is all about mood. I've been making extreme music in one fashion or another for decades. And truthfully, Down has a big enough fan base to where I could remain content to do only that, but music is a vast territory and I am an explorer. And I'm a lover of all things considered extreme in music.

It's sort of what jazz would be if it stopped being snobby and what rock would be if it stopped being stupid.

I don't like being pigeonholed at all. It stemmed from after 'Mandy Lane': I was being offered all these horror movies. I love horror movies, but when I dreamed of being a director, it was always doing all sorts of things.

I learned about embracing all different genres as opposed to just getting attached to one.

I've always been drawn to all sorts of genres and all sorts of voices.

Switching genres actually motivates me.

I like pop music, and I like really weird, strange stuff. It just didn't feel like there was anyone doing both.

A lot of people want to put you in a slot. They want to categorize you. So I fought that, because I liked all different kinds of music.

I like making all kinds of music, it really depends on the moment. Sometimes I feel like making a weird trap song, and sometimes I can't even attach a track to a genre.

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

I'd actually like to make a country album one day. One of my idols is Neil Young, because he's kept himself from being bored.

I've never really gotten into the whole labels thing. There were times I would cover a pop song, and people would say 'You sound really country.' I gave up on that whole thing a long time ago.

As an artist, you have to express yourself. I make no excuses for my versatility. I grew up singing classical arias, but I love rock n' roll and jazz standards.