Blake Shelton Quotes

In terms of music, I can try anything I want, even something that doesn't work at all, because I'm not putting my career in jeopardy.

Being an American musician means being adventurous.

All the big artists I talk to say that they are trapped in a formula and they are looking for the music of tomorrow.

What I really like doing is taking risks, musically.

I feel that when you care about your music, taking risks is something you should do to keep things exciting.

Swavey is a musical genre that I came up with to describe artists who are too talented to stay in a box with their music.

I've never been one to just play safe music and think that's all there is to it.

Why would we want to do an experimental album? That's just selfish.

But we got up there and decided to stick to this mix of power chords and funk and that's where it really started for us. In having the courage to take that decision. To take a gamble not just with our music but our lives.

I come from an art-school background, and I still feel that in my music, it's about exploration and challenging myself, about putting myself in a place that's frightening because I haven't been there before.

Miles Davis fully embraced possibilities and delved into it. He was criticized heavily from the jazz side. He was supposed to be part of a tradition, but he didn't consider himself part of a tradition.

My intentions have been, and are always, to just really get behind what my ideas are musically and to just ride this thing out, cause it feels good, and I think for the most part it's good music. Even when it's not, I'd like to still search for something that could be even like a little bit mind-blowing or shocking to me.

Pop music is so structured, and I'm excited to try and challenge that in my own work.

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

But I've always liked to be the kind of drummer and musician who likes to go outside of what's expected of me, and I've always been able to do more than you necessarily hear with every band I've ever played in.

Cage's Music of Changes was a further indication that the arts in general were beginning to consciously deal with the 'given' material and, to varying degrees, liberating them from the inherited, functional concepts of control.

Once you free your mind about a concept of music and harmony being correct, you can do whatever you want.

I'm definitely a risk-taker with my music.

I admire James Franco. I admire somebody like Jack Nicholson. Anyone who just does movies for the sake of making movies and takes big risks.

Hip hop is doing the new rock thing; there are no rules. They can do anything, really. And that's inspiring.

To keep creating something with this type of music, you have to take it out of the box.

I think music needs danger; it needs risk.

If I didn't start singing in the cabarets and on my albums, I could have never even tried something like 'Capone.'

Music should always be an adventure.

Making an album should be an honest experience. It shouldn't be about trying to gauge where popular music is today; it should be about artistic expression and putting down what you want to put down.