Devin Townsend Quotes

I really like jazz and soul, but I also love so many other types of music, and I didn't want to be afraid to blend and experiment.

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 have a very eclectic taste when it comes to music.

I'm quite an eclectic musician.

I think music is so diverse today, and bands are so diverse. If you were a rock band in the Eighties, you kind of had to stick to one thing. Now, in this age of Coachella and European festivals and stuff, it's kind of anything goes, so that allowed us to try different things.

For me, great music doesn't just have to fall into one category or one genre and I love appreciating all kinds of music.

I grew up playing in rock bands while I was listening to rap records. I like a lot of stuff.

I like pop music, and I like really weird, strange stuff. It just didn't feel like there was anyone doing both.

In the '60s, people had diverse tastes, which made the musical climate that much better and more interesting.

I got a reputation for being 'eclectic' or some damn thing like that, but to me, the different kinds of music I play are all the same stuff - good time music - and it is the only stuff I can do.

Now I listen to all kinds of music except rap, which all sounds the same to me.

I listen to all types of music so I'm influenced by everything.

I think the industry is oblivious to the fact that most people listen to all kinds of stuff. I personally don't know of anyone who listens to only one genre of music. It's vanity because no one does.

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

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.

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.

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.

I found the blues too limiting, and classical was too disciplined.

Creating any type of art is all about mood. I've been making extreme music in one fashion or another for decades. And truthfully, Down has a big enough fan base to where I could remain content to do only that, but music is a vast territory and I am an explorer. And I'm a lover of all things considered extreme in music.

I like writing all different kinds of songs. I've wanted to run the gamut of artists.

If you looked at my iPod, you would get a trip out of all the different music, from the real heavy metal to bluegrass to classical.

None of my songs sound the same. None of them. I take R&B beats and put it as a rap song or hip-hop beats and put them as a R&B song. A lot of people are boring. I don't like boring music. Everybody sounds the same, like they copying.

People often ask us if we had direct influences. Honestly, just a lot of different music - not necessarily individual people. We listen to anything from Bob Dylan to Massive Attack to Aerosmith to En Vogue. We very much enjoy all that music.

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