Kristian Nairn Quotes

We could play them through the week, and then the weekend we could play the black joints. I learned to be very versatile and learned to love it. So it stays with me even up to now.

I try to listen to over a hundred different songs a day. I listen to every single thing. If you're just listening to pop music, you're just gonna make pop music. I listen to Adele, Yo Yo Ma, Gucci Mane.

Even for the people in the business who are real music lovers it's really about putting things in the right boxes, and my style doesn't fit into a box.

Country radio went through a time where they were trying to pigeonhole everybody, and trying to make the gap really narrow, and I think that they've opened that up a little bit.

People don't listen to one radio station. On iTunes you can mix different worlds and bring country and pop and folk and live music together with a mass audience. I could have sung 'Easy' in a country way but I just sang it how I sing. I think it's a really nice blend.

I listen to all kinds of music. I love underground, new music that's popping.

I listen to a lot of stuff. I mean, I'm constantly switching up what I'm listening to.

The thing about places like Trinidad and Jamaica is that they can be very musically insular. There isn't much space for kids making hip-hop, electronic music, or hybrid genres.

I don't want people to think that just because I do club records, I can't do an album record or an R&B single. I can do R&B, I do pop, I do whatever - but it's still Mustard.

I've always loved pop music. I've always loved indie, even electronic, even trap.

I don't know why people have to categorize things in music under music. It's music and it's music and it's music. When you start putting genres on things, I think it's completely ridiculous, and I hate that.

Me, I listen to all kinds of music, really.

Electronic music has existed since the '70s, and it's almost comical how many subgenres of it there are.

There's a stigma attached to 'pop music,' like it's a taboo word. It used to make my skin crawl when people said it, and I'd say, 'I'm not a pop star! I want to be a respected musician!' But I think people have changed the way they think about it.

Our focus is still on country, but, really, on whatever music our artists are making.

I just like a good song, it doesn't matter. I mean, I am into girl groups and stuff like that. I listen to anything.

I was frustrated in the past, like, 'Wow, why do they have to throw me in the R&B urban adult contemporary lane?' 'Woman' was a no. 1 hit at Urban AC, so there's no disrespect to that lane. But did it get a fair shot at urban radio? No, I don't think so.

J. Cole is definitely one of my favorite artists, but I like a lot of different music.

I've always loved good music; I'm not really fussed where it comes from.

I listen to all kinds of music myself; it can range from practically anything: Opera, Jazz, to Blues, good Pop, just about anything.

I listen to country music. I listen to jazz. I listen to R&B. I listen to Jimi Hendrix a lot.

For me, the '80s was great because you had Boy George, Michael Jackson, Stevie Wonder, Prince, and Cyndi Lauper. No one put boxes saying this is urban, this is popular, this is underground. It was just good or bad.

I love everything from soul to electronica and classic rock to weird rock. I'm a real cratedigger, so wherever I go, I search out a vinyl shop to find some unburied treasure - records by under-the-radar artistes.

I was listening to radio and it plays only Bollywood. This is something I hate about radio stations. There's so much other beautiful music out there.

You'd walk by MTV an hour ago, and you come back, and it seemed like the same song was playing. I want to stay as far away from that as I can in my band.