Jackie Evancho 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.

I like so many different kinds of music that I've never allowed myself the limitations of one particular range.

I always play so many different styles that I don't think anything I do surprises anyone.

I listen to a lot of different kinds of music, and I feel like I can pull ideas from practically anything. You name it - I'll probably like it.

As an artist, you have to express yourself. I make no excuses for my versatility. I grew up singing classical arias, but I love rock n' roll and jazz standards.

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.

I love mixing up my genres.

I'm quite an eclectic musician.

When I look at music, everything is blurred, and I like it that way. I grew up like that, hanging out with different types of people who listened to so many different types of music. I never wanted to be part of any one clique. I loved it all.

I don't want to be stuck to any specific genre.

I had phases of listening to rap and trap, and then I had phases where I'd listen to post-hardcore, rap, grunge, metal... all that. I had different time periods of listening to different music. And now it all clashes together.

Of course, I'm open to all kinds of genres. In my head, there are no demarcations.

I don't have a genre because I play lots of different music that people would say are different genres.

My brothers came home with country, jazz, everything... it was always very normal to me to make any type of music. It was possible to fuse all the sounds, so it never sounded confusing to me to mix jazz and dubstep.

I cannot be confined to just one or two kinds of music.

I enjoy being able to do different kinds of music, not just to be eclectic but because those are all a part of me.

We don't have any genre-based allegiances.

My mom and dad have two very different tastes in music, so they were playing everything from Prince to the Beatles to Aaliyah.

Some people dig jazz, some people dig classical music, some people dig rock. Everyone is so concerned about who they like. They always say, 'This guy is the best,' 'No, this guy is the best.' But I think everyone is great. I really don't have barriers to any type of music. I could listen to everything from metal to classical music to anything else.

I don't have one favourite band. I like everything.

Being a musician - and I like to think of myself as a musician with a capital M - you need to be an omnivore, and I think the best musicians will listen to anything and love everything, and I do.

Where my tastes in music are concerned, I'm a real maximalist.

I'm just experimenting with every different type of music you can imagine and seeing where my voice lies and what sounds best. I think when I do finally do the album it will be very eclectic - just loads of different stuff on it. That's what I am hoping.

If someone is a straight jazzhead, or a straight metalhead, or straight classical, they have a very narrow range of what they allow into their lives. But the people who listen to what we put out into the world have to be open-minded. Because we're so pluralist.

I'm thrilled that country music fans like my stuff, but so do a lot of people outside of country music, people who just love music. My goal is more to reach music lovers than to appeal to a genre. I love country music, and I'm proud to represent it, but I don't obsess over it as a category.