Luke Bryan Quotes

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.

When we started Poco, we were too country for rock, and we were too rock for country.

A lot of people who have been perceiving my music have been trying to formulate a genre for it, and I think it's just a natural thing; it doesn't need to be categorized. It doesn't need to be sectioned, if you will.

I don't really classify 'Wichita Lineman' as country.

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.

People are asking us, 'Why have you gone country?' And we say, 'Man, we were born country.' They gave us the tag 'Southern rock' years ago as a way of not saying country.

I don't like being categorized as a rapper. I make music; I don't just rap.

I think what people get confused about is that they want to label me as this EDM girl, but a lot of this stuff is genre-less.

I don't care about the word 'pop'. The Beatles were pop; it's just what's popular.

I am not a pop musician; I don't want to play bubble-gummy pop stuff.

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 music has always sort of been country music.

Music is music; you don't have to put a label on it.

It doesn't matter if you stick the name 'bluegrass' on it. I think people call things bluegrass that I wouldn't necessarily call bluegrass, but what they're calling country music today I'm not sure that I would call country music. But I love music and I try to encourage people.

I'm still looking for the rules of what is and isn't pop music. I'm pop. I mean, of course I am. What isn't pop? There should be a pop amnesty where everyone reclaims it.

I don't think I'm a country artist, really. I'm a country person, but I don't think I'm necessarily a country singer or musician.

When I first came out, country wouldn't touch me because I was way too rock, and rock wouldn't touch me because I was definitely country.

When I sing a pop song, I'm a pop singer. When I sing a country song, I'm a country singer. I've been very lucky to cross over, because by doing that, you can't be pigeonholed.

I'm like the male Taylor Swift.

I never thought we were a country band in the first place. I think we've gotten ourselves into a place where we don't underestimate our listeners and what potential there is for the music they've heard all their lives.

'Classic rock' is never a label that we've given ourselves - it's one of the many labels that's been imposed on us.

I never considered myself like a pop musician or rock star, because that didn't really exist when I started.

When you label something a singer-songwriter record, you cover many genres.

I think, actually, that rock and roll is a misconception. It should no longer be a term for music.

Rock and roll is a misconception. It should no longer be a term for music.