Gary Burton Quotes

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 was in punk rock bands, heavy metal bands, world music bands, jazz groups, any type of music that would take me. I just love music.

I just like music all the way around the board. I can't stick to one thing - I've got to move around.

Music is there for us to explore. To intentionally limit yourself to one, two, or three genres is limitation at its worst. Music is huge; it's a gigantic history lesson, and if you are true music fan or a musician, you should explore it. It's all right there in front of us.

My music is a direct reflection of the eclectic person I am. I don't like to be stuck in an R&B box.

I never set out to be part of a genre, because I listen to all types of music.

I listen to a wide range of music, from country to pop to alternative rock, as well as Indian music. You know, what excites me are new ideas. And with a lot of the international hits - from Lady Gaga to Rihanna and others - you'd find excellent production and groundbreaking ideas that lift the music to a greater realm.

It's important to me to not stay too confined to any specific sonic space. There is something really magical about straight folk music - it's not that I don't like it, it's just that I like so much music, I hear so many different things, and I want to try more. I don't want to be confined.

I'm influenced by a lot of different genres of music. So I'm constantly trying to rework production and make things interesting in the live show and on records.

Stay adventurous with that musical taste.

I think I have a more wider scope for music, I have more taste for music.

I love all Yes music and love to play it live, but I'm most interested in making new music with Yes.

I grew up listening to everything. I have such a love for music, but I don't want to make the same album over and over again.

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

I feel like have a lot of music left to cut in my life.

At the end of the day I want to be the guy who experienced music in all type of ways, with hip-hop being the roots of it.

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.

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.

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

I'm literally into any type of music imaginable.

My folks have played everything from rock, disco, pop, funk, and blues. My dad has always brought and played different genres like jazz, classical, and Latin. With all this in my pocket, I feel I have a taste of everything for my influences.

I listen to all kinds of music - new music, old music, music of my colleagues, everything.

I'm the renegade of funk. I've made house, techno, rock, funk, reggae... That's why I've been on so many different labels.

I want to put my vibe and my feel of music into an album and have people from different places around the world feel that and hear that.

I've discovered all kinds of music and done all kinds of music over the past 40 years, from playing tango with Piazzolla to all the different bands I've had.