Kacey Musgraves Quotes

Being genre-bending doesn't really cross my mind. I don't consider anyone I work with a specific genre.

The first five albums I did, I tried a little bit of everything. I was trying not to conform at all.

A lot of singers find a musical genre people like and stick with it. That's being a conformist. I sing ballads, rock, salsa, rap.

When I got out of the Nazz, I had it in my mind that simply to be eclectic was an important aspect of making music. It was something that I derived from The Beatles.

I've been called 'musically schizophrenic,' and some people think that's a cool thing.

I can make any type of music, so I wouldn't want to describe myself as having one type of sound. I think music is about keeping it diverse.

What I do and where I come from, the kind of music that I'm making, it's definitely U.K. If I turned around and did a tune with Timbaland, it would be amazing, but it would be me kind of leaving where I'm coming from.

Hip hop is doing the new rock thing; there are no rules. They can do anything, really. And that's inspiring.

I think anything I do will have an island feel, but I don't want it to be just that; I don't want to be put in a box.

I like the idea of an eclectic approach, incorporating jazz with other forms and other genres of music.

I'm kind of at a point in my career where I can get away with traditional stuff and then get away with some more rocky and pop and edgier stuff, too.

Eclecticism is the word. Like a jazz musician who creates his own style out of the styles around him, I play by ear.

When I go with different producers, and they've thought about what they want to do, I think they feel a little bit more free, because they know almost any sound will work on my record if we pull it together properly - so they don't feel so limited.

I experimented and explored ways to find my own niche in Nashville, and I was having trouble with it for a while because stylistically, I didn't feel like I necessarily fit in.

I think every time, before we do an album, we have a discussion where we sort of consider the idea of doing something radically different.

I never thought of us as a punk band, a metal band, or a new wave band. Just as a band band.

I would much rather hear a song that's written from a fresh perspective, using ideas that have existed in rock & roll for 50 years, than something that is incredibly abrasive to my ears but is new.

I keep my hip-hop as hip-hop, my R&B as R&B and my pop as pop. The ability to cross those boundaries and do all these things effectively is not commonly done.

I don't want to write the same song over and over again.

I could have pigeonholed us and wrote a whole record like 'Pumped Up Kicks,' and we would have been this breezy, nostalgic West Coast Beach Boys recreation band. That's not the type of writer I am. Once I try one style, I move on.

Genre hopping is something I intend to do, and I intend to do it forever and ever because I think genres are boring.

The tapes we were making would jump around with different styles, just quick parts of different songs. Hip-hop to jazz to funk to whatever else. And in a way, 'Check Your Head' ended up being like one of those pause-tapes.

When some artistes give a hit song, they keep repeating themselves in the same genre. I always try to create something new.

I feel my voice can fit in many things so it's very interesting to combine things and music styles.

I've been lucky enough to sort of go over different mediums, different vibes and genres.