Jose Gonzalez Quotes

I don't think a song should be put in a category.

I tend to not want to put labels or categories on the music, only because people come with preconceived ideas about what they're going to hear, or won't come for this reason.

The problem we have is that, some people call it 'too rock' to play on a jazz station, and it's 'too jazz' to play on a rock station. So it's difficult. It's difficult to make it playing this kind of music.

It's only people that aren't goths that think the Cure are a goth band.

I've always tried to stay clear of being labeled, putting a label on what type of music that I make.

It's bad to be labeled just another singer-songwriter.

I feel like certain people think that certain styles of music will taint their jazz style.

I don't like to classify my own tracks as a genre.

So much good music has been looked over because of preconceived notions of genre.

I think that people are too... They've become genre snobs.

When somebody uses a word as a genre distinction, all it really does is trigger certain experiences, or music, that somebody's been exposed to. But that's an individual thing; there's no sort of universal understanding of what jazz is.

Funk could very easily be called jazz, but you call it funk. Does that really matter? People dig that they associate themselves with certain genres, but the genres to me are made up things, like an imaginary world.

I think what people get confused about is that they want to label me as this EDM girl, but a lot of this stuff is genre-less.

I don't know why people have to categorize things in music under music. It's music and it's music and it's music. When you start putting genres on things, I think it's completely ridiculous, and I hate that.

It's like soul music, isn't it all soul music? Otherwise what is it, non-soul music? I-have-no-soul music? Soulless music? People need to put a name on something to identify it, and I understand it.

I don't like the word 'urban' because I think it's a bit of a generalisation and they use it to class music, but I don't think it's a word that necessarily classes music.

I mean, there's plenty of artists who are making R&B music, but because of their ethnicity, it's considered something else.

My songs don't play on pop radio; they play on black radio.

I wouldn't really say I'm a jazz guy, which I'm not.

I don't want to be seen as this math-rock geek.

I am not a pop musician; I don't want to play bubble-gummy pop stuff.

I can't tell you what genre Maroon 5 is in. I don't know if they're rock or pop or alternative. I don't know what they are. I have a hard time separating that stuff. I just know what I like when I hear it.

Many elitists hate rap as much as they hate country, though they don't like to admit it for fear of appearing racially insensitive.

I don't listen to music made by white people. I especially hate anything where a guitar is used. I don't listen to white people and guitars.

I don't know why I keep saying this, and I don't know why I keep using their names... And I'm not dogging them. I'm not slandering them. I'm not saying they are bad musicians. But how can Taylor Swift or Justin Timberlake win for R&B and funk? They are pop singers.