Tarja Turunen Quotes

I pride myself on being the type of artist who can work half in the R&B world and half in the pop world.

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.

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.

Music is music. It doesn't matter if I am trying to aim at country or trying to aim at pop.

They could never put me in a slot. They couldn't say Glen was 'country,' 'pop' or 'rock.' I'm crock, OK? A cross between country and rock. Call me crock.

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.

I've always had a close connection to both rock and classical music.

My music has always been sort of in between categories. Sometimes record stores - back when there were record stores - they'd put my records in the country music section, but other record stores would put my records in the pop or even the rock section. As long as it's in the store somewhere, I'm OK with it.

Me as an artist, I've ventured off into doing all types of music. I'll do a jazz album, you know what I mean.

I've done the country, done the pop-rock, done the super-hard electro.

My music is a direct reflection of the eclectic person I am. I don't like to be stuck in an R&B box.

I love mixing up my genres.

Some people think I'm a rock 'n' roll musician and some think I'm a jazz musician but, for me, there is no difference.

When I was younger I didn't really know what genre of music I'd want to do because I'd always done so many different types, so many impressions.

I've always said that I count myself as a classical crossover artist. To be so, you have to have the core classical training, which I did for many, many years, but also be interested in the pop side of things. You can fit in somewhere in the middle. I feel I do that really well.

I think my music generally transcends a lot of genres.

Taxi drivers used to ask me what kind of music I did, and I'd say, 'Well, it's kind of jazz, soul, classical' - but that makes no sense to anyone.

It's really interesting to just look at the career of a musician and a producer that went into many different genres and many different styles and many different places but always breaking the barriers between genres and at some point reinventing himself all along the way but also inventing things at the same time.

I had to make different kinds of music for everybody but still keep it classic T-Pain at the same time.

Although my music is electronic, it has a lot of influences from my past, which is all sorts of genres; I've been in a rock-metal band for a long time, and I still feel like, personally, I have a lot of influence from that. My classical influence, you can find spots here and there.

My guitar playing touches so many different areas of the form, but the important thing is what it represents across the form.

I said that when I establish myself as an artist that can do pretty much anything I want to do in music, I'm going to make a country album.

I feel like my music has so many different things going on. I've always worked with many different producers. And a lot of times, each of them has a different thing that I really love about what they do.

I don't believe that what Tears for Fears has done, and continues to do, can be pigeonholed into a genre or decade.

Some people say I make hip-hop. Others see me as doing EDM. Some people might look at me as a trap artist, but I'm not really stuck to any of those.