Jon Crosby Quotes

My voice is a combination of how I grew up and what I was listening to growing up. I like a lot of different kinds of music and am always being inspired in different ways by different artists for different reasons.

To me the bottom line is: good music is good music.

Music is a personal preference. Everyone's free to connect and like whatever they want.

We all have different musical instincts, and I think they're precious and should be respected.

I don't have to save rock. I don't even like rock that much.

I don't like rock. Honestly, I like to listen to it, but it's not for me. There's a lot of musical genres that I find interesting, but they don't suit me. It's one thing to listen to different genres, but to perform a genre that isn't yours is counterproductive.

Good music is good music, and everything else can go to hell.

I think I've learnt that there is no character so strange that you haven't shared their experience in some small way.

I know music is subjective.

As you begin to realize that every different type of music, everybody's individual music, has its own rhythm, life, language and heritage, you realize how life changes, and you learn how to be more open and adaptive to what is around us.

The type of band that I have now, the type of music that we're playing you either like it or you dislike it. If you dislike it, you probably don't know why. By the same token, you can't even really say why you like it.

Music is entirely subjective. I was thinking that for myself, for songwriting and what I like to listen to, to help motivate me as a songwriter, as a musician, there are certain things I lean towards and certain things I don't.

I'm not a culture snob. So while, of course, I think the Mozart 'Requiem' or, say, Beethoven's 'Ninth' are some of the greatest works of art in the history of humankind, that's not to say the Beatles or Queen or Simon and Garfunkel aren't brilliant, beautiful, important works of art that should be sung without a sense of irony.

I grew up with a wide range of music.

Music is only good sometimes.

Music is music and there are only two types: good and bad.

I think it's really hard to describe music without alienating somebody.

I have been influenced by music. I grew up listening to blues, jazz and all.

I didn't like progressive jazz or anything. Rock was something I like to listen to.

I think the music defends myself. I don't think anyone should put a race on any genre. It's just a way of expressing yourself through instruments and sounds, right? People can just listen to the music.

For me, when we're all human beings, it's just interesting that we cannot understand the other person or how they think. That's one part of the human aspect that fascinates me.

A lot of music that's my favorite doesn't sound like the music I write.

I never necessarily played the music I listen to. I've always liked a lot of soul, roots-reggae, alternative psych-rock, and I feel like, with age, that's kind of come.

I'm very self-deprecating, so I'm not afraid to make jokes at my own expense, and I've just found that makes people a little more comfortable and can open the door for people to feel a little bit more understanding and accepting of where you're coming from.

No genre of music is better than another, whether it's country, hip-hop, trap, classical, whatever. It's all music.