Ray Brown Quotes

My musical tastes change every week.

I love heavy music, but you see, I had fallen in love with a radio station in Vegas that played nothing but Eighties music. That had a real profound impact on me.

It's not very often that I like new bands.

I have a difficult relationship with jazz. My parents really love it, and I went to a school where jazz was considered the best thing ever, so I had to leave it be for a long time. But now I'm rediscovering it. I'm approaching jazz in a different way.

After that I didn't listen to music as much because '70s music just wasn't... I remember all the songs, but it wasn't because I was into them, you know what I mean?

I have periods where I listen to regular rap, Jay-Z, Eminem and Lil Wayne. The next day I might have some Christian alternative music. The next day I have on some dance music. It all varies what I listen to.

If you got in my truck, you were listening to country music, and that's the way it was for a long time. I'm a little more open to other sources of music now, a lot more. But for the formative years, I was just very into country.

Really, I only listen to like five songs.

I sort of fell out of new music. I'm old, I like what I like, and that's that.

Hip-hop and R&B is mostly what I listen to. I don't have a connection with punk rock - I just never had that experience.

It's nice to be able to backtrack and not be embarrassed by the music you used to listen to.

I like all kinds of music - classical, pop, rock, electronic.

I listen to music all the time, and I just choose things I like, or things that I've not used before. Sometimes I work with music that's very difficult - that I don't even particularly like, per se, but that is really complex or interesting.

The last time I really got into new music that wasn't heavy metal was probably like... TV on the Radio? I think that was it. That's the last time.

I actually spend very little time listening to any new music.

I'm not really into gothic music, it's not really my type of scene but each to their own. I listen to pretty much anything.

I still love a variety of kinds of music.

I grew up loving classic rock music - The Beatles, The Rolling Stones - and then one day I heard 'Baby One More Time' on the radio and I thought 'What is this?' I was eight and it changed my life.

As a rule, my focus is on classical music, but I love jazz. I love everything, actually.

Before I really knew country music, I listened to pop, and I still do.

Music is like girlfriends to me; I'm continually astonished by the choices other people make.

I always tell the fans, 'Screw it! Like what you like. Listen to what you want.' Insisting that one type of music is better than the next is snobbery, and I have no time for that. Check out all the music that's out there. There's great stuff you're probably missing.

Depending on which day, and how I am feeling on that day, I have a different favorite song on the album. One day it might be 'Karma', and other days it is 'Stay For A While'

I've never been a particular fan of any genre.

I grew up in the suburbs and was raised on rap radio, so it took me a long time to stumble upon the acoustic guitar as a resource for anything.