Ronnie Milsap Quotes

I am comfortable with anything I sing: jazz, gospel, classical. It doesn't matter. I can do it all.

In a lot of groups, you can change a musician, and it doesn't mean anything.

I know that composers know my voice type and what songs will suit me. I have been able to mould my voice according to the nature of the song given to me, be it rock, pop or jazz.

I don't think I was ever meant to be tied down to one band for the rest of my life, playing one style of music.

But I'd play on everything from pop records to a lot of the glam stuff to rock stuff to classical stuff. I used to get called to do all those things, it was great.

A lot of people relate me to the blues but I don't think it's a hindrance at this point. I've been doing it long enough that I can do different things and be accepted.

I kind of consider myself a chameleon in music. I love all sorts of music.

If I'm feeling like rock, we'll do some of that, and if I'm feeling some other way, we might do some of that. So, that's typically how I record and write and play music and anything else.

That's the miracle of music. No one can reinterpret a Picasso, but a song can be remixed and covered and interpreted in an infinite number of ways. It's a living thing.

I'm lucky that I can play all kinds of music, that it appeals to all of the generations.

Andy Chase and I were keyboard players originally, and we became guitarists later. But it's fun for us to focus more on the keyboard stuff sometimes.

Working with Justin Bieber, I learned that he can literally do any genre - he's a chameleon. His voice is so flexible that he's not locked in to one genre, and it just shows the world that he can really sing anything.

I could probably use some tips from a vocal trainer or something about breathing, but we all know it's not about technical prowess.

I didn't want to box myself into writing just rock music because you can try to force it into moments that don't want it.

It's not really difficult to go from one voice into the next. It's like asking you to sing a line of Happy Birthday and then Goodnight Irene - assuming you know the words to both those songs

I'm not a jazz singer, blues singer or country singer. I'm a singer that can sing rhythm & blues, that can sing jazz, that can sing country. There's a big difference. In other words, I'm not a specialist.

I'm not great with breathing, like holding notes. I usually don't. A lot of people wouldn't believe it, but I don't focus on technical stuff.

I'm a variety girl when it comes to different genres.

What we are as a live band is different to what we are on recordings, but they're both equal versions: they're both LCD Soundsystem, but in very different ways.

I'm a chameleon when it comes to guitar playing and like to stretch out into different territories.

I'm a very changeable character. I don't think I've got one style of music that is overriding to me.

Some people are really surprised that I can sing different ways.

I don't have the slightest idea of how to do vocal exercises or scales or anything like that, but I did always know to breath properly from the stomach. I'm a pop singer and never really felt I needed more.

I think that's the great thing for us - we're a band full of songwriters, and we're capable of writing all kinds of songs.

We don't have any genre-based allegiances.