Nancy Wilson Quotes

No two people on earth are alike, and it's got to be that way in music or it isn't music.

I think that all my albums are different enough where I don't feel like I did this the last time.

I like to make the music that I really love. You're supposed to make your favorite music that no one else played, and I'd like to just keep it at that and not really change it at all.

I think a lot of singer-songwriters get compared to each other, but I'd like to think that what I'm doing is special and specific to me.

I grew up listening to The Beatles, Led Zeppelin, and every record those bands put out was very unique in its own right. I have that mentality. too: if a song sounds like something I've already done, then I'll throw it out, because I want each record to be a progression.

I've had a lot of folks tell me that my songs weren't quite country because they didn't really sound like anybody that had come along and done it before me. I felt a little out of place for a while.

Just trying to be different - when I hear something - I don't like to go trampling on other people's sounds.

We didn't go for music that sounded like blues, or jazz, or rock, or Led Zeppelin, or Rolling Stones. We didn't want to be like any of the other bands.

A musician should only sound like what they do, and no two musicians sound the same. It's an individual-feel thing, you know?

I try and make all my songs sound different from each other while doing it in a way that's still me. It's a tricky thing to do.

I don't have one song that sounds like another one in my entire catalog.

You're always going to sound like yourself, but you can make really strong attempts to keep some similarities, but move away from what you did before for popularity's sake.

I have a very difficult time describing my music. Because I run into people in the hardware store and they go, 'Oh, you're a musician. So what kind of music do you play?' And I go, 'Uh, I've been doin' this for many years - I don't know what to call it.'

What is nice about country music today is that most artists are not trying to do something everybody else is doing. They really are trying to develop their own uniqueness.

The music I make, I'm different.

You hear ten seconds of a song, and you know it's OutKast. There's a strangeness about it because it's catchy, but it's not just pop for the sake of pop. They're pushing the envelope.

It's either you finna create your own wave, you finna sound like me or you finna sound like G Herbo, you finna sound like Chance The Rapper, you finna sound like Juice Wrld. You ain't gonna get too far 'cause you sound like somebody. So, create your own lane and do your own style.

From our music in general, we've always fought the idea that we had to fit into a box or fit into a certain category.

I wasn't trying to sound like anybody else. Basically, I was just experimenting all over the place.

What I ended up learning was that I had to do what I do well, and do it really well and say, 'Maybe there is no pop music that sounds like this now, but I can make it so maybe tomorrow what I like can be what everybody likes.'

If anyone has listened to my stuff over the years, they know I tend not to do the same thing twice.

We didn't want to change who we are. We're not going to sit there and go, 'Let's be a rap band now.'

When you got a sound that don't sound like nobody else and it's brand new, you've got to feed it to 'em. You've got to force it on 'em.

I don't feel like we have that Paul McCartney gene, and I think the cool thing about us is that we know it.

I don't believe in making two songs similar. Every composition must have its own unique character.