Andra Day Quotes

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

Like everybody else, I love a good pop song. You know, there's nothing like it. I also just really like music that goes off on extended forays of extrapolation into different areas. So it's kind of nice to be able to move between those two poles.

The most important thing is that you honor that musical integrity, whether you make music that sounds like ABBA or you make music that sounds like Void.

The reflection of the world is blues, that's where that part of the music is at. Then you got this other kind of music that's tryin' to come around.

I'm the renegade of funk. I've made house, techno, rock, funk, reggae... That's why I've been on so many different labels.

They believed you can't mix rock, country, and rap, and that crossover is dead. I always knew it would work. And it will always work as long as you're really into it and like what you're doing.

I'm quite an eclectic musician.

If Mozart were around now he would write a killer rock song.

The biggest misconception about us is that we're just a rock band. We think our music is a cross-section of many genres; a hybrid of what the six of us have grown up on.

My favorite band of all time is The Clash. The thing I love about The Clash is they started out as guys who could barely play three chords. They dabbled in reggae, punk, rap, jazz. They came to a sound that could only be defined as The Clash. It was impossible to say what it was. I admire them for that.

I like to experiment when it comes to music.

We don't want to box ourselves within any type of genre, you know? Whatever feels good, if it moves us and we like it, we get on it and make it our own. That's what we do.

I just wanted to make melodies. I started trying to do my own thing and let the melodies make the genre themselves.

Musically, I try not to box things in. I try to just play around this spectrum of influences: soul, jazz, and hip-hop.

People come in because they like 'Old Town Road.' They'll find out that I'm just not going to stick to that.

Who's to say a blues man can't play rock and roll?

I'd love to do the straight music thing, but that's kind of against our mission, which is to rebel against the serious singer-songwriter mentality.

Reggaeton is what opened the doors for me, and I'm always grateful for that. I'll do reggaeton for life, but I want to show that I'm an artist who can do everything.

For anybody to say well this is not Hip Hop and that's not Hip Hop, that is not the way the formula was laid down. It was for the people who were going to continue take anything musically and string it along.

I like structuring verses, choruses, but sometimes the verses might be a tango and the choruses might be death metal.

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 love all Yes music and love to play it live, but I'm most interested in making new music with Yes.

Most people say, 'Well, Earl, you sing the blues,' or however they want to categorize it. I just sing songs.

Being on the road is a great habitat for creating new music because there's so many different experiences.

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