Jonny Greenwood Quotes

For us, it is all about breaking the boundaries between different genres of music and combining different styles of music and performing what we are passionate about. We are so lucky that we can experience both worlds: the more intimate classical world and the wild and crazy world of rock n' roll.

I like the idea of an eclectic approach, incorporating jazz with other forms and other genres of music.

When we started Poco, we were too country for rock, and we were too rock for country.

There's many different genres, and when you see R&B and pop and house, as well as electronic, come together, that's the reality of what music is.

What I'm trying to do is break the genre from what is rap and what is music.

I see dancehall reggae and hip-hop as fused together, When I was a kid, they were the two kinds of music that spoke to me and said 'Move!'

I do think that some bands seem to be dabbling in the rock-hip-hop world and are not necessarily serious about it.

I don't care if it's rap, metal, whatever. You still should play Beatles records mixed with Limp Bizkit mixed with Foghat mixed with Creedence Clearwater Revival, stuff like that.

The diverse sound of my music makes it a good fit for that demographic.

The Band is probably the ultimate example of people taking all kinds of music, from gospel to blues to mountain music to folk music to on and on and on and on and putting them all in this big pot and mixing up a new gumbo.

I can put a hip-hop beat to reggae. That is, I can have real reggae in the drums and in the rhythm, and on top of it I can put The Rolling Stones' feeling, anyone's feeling on top. Nobody has ever done this before, man.

I just loved classical music, but I also loved playing rock guitar, and I loved playing piano, so it was a natural thing that those things would merge at some point.

Maybe one day music will just be music, and there won't be these categories; it'll just be different shades of music.

Hip-hop educated me about other forms of music, because it sampled from all different styles.

The folk music definition has changed in this fast music world and musical styles are blending really quickly.

I don't like putting a name on my music. It's not just country and rap; it's got Southern rock, classic rock.

I think right now, you've seen these artists pop up over the last decade who've flirted with branching together a lot of different kinds of music. Some of them have been huge, and sold millions of records. And I think over time it's become a little bit of what the industry can be.

I'm trying to fuse popular and commercial music and just make very creative music. It's popular music: it's everything for everybody.

I'm trying to use people like Meredith Monk and Philip Glass and Terry Riley as the backing tracks for new pop songs. It's really hard trying to use the format and write a pop song on top of avant-garde music, so we'll see. It could be cool, or it could totally flop.

Hip-hop is a part of rock & roll because it comes from DJ culture. DJ culture is the embodiment of all genres and all recorded music, if you actually pay attention to it.

Jazz has borrowed from other genres of music and also has lent itself to other genres of music.

I mix up all styles on my albums because that is what music is about now.

It's a really diverse time in music, with all these different DJs and all these different categories, and we are all taking footnotes from everyone else. There are no real genre boundaries anymore; you can take a trance idea and put it into a trap record - it's not that uncommon.

I love pop and rap. Bringing those two worlds together is always fun.

I don't really see huge barriers between any styles of music.