Queen Latifah Quotes

I think people have come to know that I am not comfortable in a box, you know, and that I love music.

So many actors and musicians seem to be only interested in what's expected of them, and they join the dots accordingly. I don't fit into any narrow categories as an actor or a singer.

I felt that pop music didn't represent me. And that's why I made my own.

I don't know how well I work in traditions. I don't know if it's just the way I listened to music growing up and never having my foot in one particular world, and just wanting to do my own thing.

I just don't feel limited by genre.

My ethos is musical freedom: to create whatever I want.

We don't tell you what to think or believe in. That's not our job. We're rock musicians. Our job is to rock.

I've never really gotten into the whole labels thing. There were times I would cover a pop song, and people would say 'You sound really country.' I gave up on that whole thing a long time ago.

I'm going to try to not let anyone put me in a box, and that certainly applies to the things I do outside of acting.

I don't like to be labeled, to be anything. I've made the mistake before myself of labeling my music, but it's counter-productive.

It was important for me to remind people that there's no formula... there's no boundary to R&B music.

I don't want to be held down by genres so much.

I'm playin' the music I like.

I really love music that's on the periphery of not fitting into a clear genre. I felt like I was constantly being described as something I didn't really feel like I identified with.

When I did 'Frankenstein,' the record company said, 'Now you can do 'Dracula' and 'Wolf Man' and we'll call the whole thing Monster Rock!' and I said, 'No, that's not going to happen, I'm not going to do that.' I kind of enjoy defying categorization. I love music in and of itself. I love the beauty of harmony and rhythm.

No one can pigeon-hole me because I play everything, and I did that on purpose.

No one told us what to wear, what to write, what to play. When they tried to, we shot 'em down easily.

We don't want to box ourselves within any type of genre, you know? Whatever feels good, if it moves us and we like it, we get on it and make it our own. That's what we do.

I make all types of music. People wanna put me in a little box, and they get mad when I don't stay in there.

I'd love to do the straight music thing, but that's kind of against our mission, which is to rebel against the serious singer-songwriter mentality.

A lot of people want to put you in a slot. They want to categorize you. So I fought that, because I liked all different kinds of music.

I fulfill a part of myself in Pentatonix. And then, we can all step away individually and do the specific things we like because we're all so different in musical tastes.

The first five albums I did, I tried a little bit of everything. I was trying not to conform at all.

You can't put me in a box, because then it's just like, you're not gonna get anything.

More Than' means refusing to define yourself according to what society dictates, or everyone around you thinks you should do or be.