PartyNextDoor Quotes

I try not to get trapped in any one musical or visual style at all.

My music is pretty versatile; I have a lot of genres and styles. I don't think I should be pigeonholed into one thing. So we'll see where my career goes.

I don't want to be held down by genres so much.

People expect me to be dark and gloomy, then write that I'm a jolly chap, and after all, that is what I am. I think it's a case of an absolute romantic naivety that there should be a parallel between the work and the artist.

I got thrown out of music school for even listening to Fats Domino and Ray Charles. I was asked, 'What kind of music do you like to listen to?' and I said, 'Well, I do like Paul Hindemith and Igor Stravinsky but I also like Fats Domino and Ray Charles,' and they literally said, 'Either forget about that or leave.'

I like to keep the big dynamic changes between my songs, so that album songs feel radically different from each other.

To record an album and stick to one specific style isn't really my thing.

The only intention I've ever had creatively, as a musician, is to be as different from myself as possible.

Sometimes, I want to make a record that's so schizophrenic and so all over the place, and then other times, I want to make a record that's very coherent and very short and together.

I make all types of music. People wanna put me in a little box, and they get mad when I don't stay in there.

I think my music covers a broader sound than just 'Tropical House'... My goal is to simply be a great producer in my own right without being pigeonholed.

I don't care about technique. I have kind of been pigeonholed as a technical drummer since I was in Dream Theater for all those years, but it's actually very far from the truth.

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

I don't want to make films that are constantly pleasing the audience, it is not my tradition.

I don't think that because l'm a composer I only have to compose music.

People always try to pigeonhole you, especially the media, who are happy if they can label you as a particular kind of artist. But the spectrum of songs I write and record is vast.

I want to encourage Filipino artists to be original, write your own songs and don't be afraid to go outside the box and try new things.

I don't have any limitations that I only want to do serious films. I am trying to break that image but not very consciously.

Make music when I want to in whatever style I would like to. That is something that I know that I'm not the only Nightwish member who has that. That's a luxury we can take, and we will.

I'm just doing all type of music that I like. I'm not so worried about the money like I used to be. I got money now. I don't have to worry about that.

I think it's just a conglomerate of everybody's influences that comes out on the record, and live as well.

No one wants to hear me over some smooth, regular beat, or just into the times. I try to do records sometimes that have a different bounce - maybe it's a Southern bounce or something. And people shoot me all day long.

It's crazy to close doors to any genres.

I like to write about things that are dark or twisted. Where the poetry seems to be is when you start in the dark and reach for the light - that's what makes it not depressing to me.

I don't really think of Dire Straits as a sound, you know. It. just depends on the song, and the stuff we're doing is so varied.