G-Dragon Quotes

If I do something related to English music, it will be definitely in the direction of R&B and pop.

Radio is being dominated by records that are 120 beats per minute. R&B is about groove and soul.

All music is dance music. But when people think of dance music, they think of techno or just house. Anything you can dance to is dance music. I don't care if it's classical, funk, salsa, reggae, calypso; it's all dance music.

If you asked me what pop is right now. I'd say hip hop.

I've been hugely inspired by Khalid, XXX, Post Malone, and The Weekend. That's the kind of sound that has really inspired me.

I'm not exclusively into R&B. I like Usher.

My music is a little bit of everything - R&B, hip-hop, EDM.

At times I put in Meek Mill and listen to some R&B, some Merengue, Dominican music. I really listen to pretty much everything.

For a long time I wasn't actually listening to pop. But when I got back into electronic and hip-hop stuff, I rediscovered my passion for pop music.

In general, I love dance-pop music with some soul and a dash of R&B.

Just look at the transformation Taylor Swift made from being pop country to pop pop. There are very specific things she cut out and very specific things she adopted.

This is sort of not expected, but I would love to produce a record for Missy Elliott. It would be totally different, but she makes party music. 'Lose Control' was my favorite song when I was in 5th or 6th grade.

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

My songs aren't bubble gum pop dance songs and I don't have background dancers on every single song.

I like the old '90s music.

I'm a big fan of pop music - I think Marvin Gaye was pop music; things like that.

I'd like to collaborate with Jay-Z and Mary J. Blige.

I really love all types of music. I'm really open to that. I really love Bruno Mars, Justin Timberlake and some James Taylor and Elton John stuff.

There were a lot of R&B groups that were my heroes, but the funny thing about my career and the way it went and where it went, at first I didn't really want to do pop music. I was a little bit more into jazz and R&B.

I was thinking about working with Lady Gaga, not 'Born This Way' but more her old stuff that she did with RedOne from her first album. I think that would be really fun - a cool combination.

People ask me how could I go from country to jazz. It's been a natural convergence for me.

My production and songwriting and the environment around those vocals are not inspired by R&B at all.

Our records have always been diversified - a bit of R&B, pop, dance.

I think with me and the type of music that I'm trying to make, it's always going be soulful because I grew up listening to different types and variations of soulful melodies and jazz, but experimenting with different types of stylistic souls.

I listen to everything - from Sarah McLachlan and Alanis Morissette all the way down to rap like Scarface, UGK and Lauryn Hill.