Sam Hunt Quotes

Music is music; you don't have to put a label on it.

I really like jazz and soul, but I also love so many other types of music, and I didn't want to be afraid to blend and experiment.

I'm not too bothered about what category my music goes in and there's no point in limiting in who you can reach, but I want it to be respected.

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

A lot of people who have been perceiving my music have been trying to formulate a genre for it, and I think it's just a natural thing; it doesn't need to be categorized. It doesn't need to be sectioned, if you will.

I'm not going to choose between classical, Broadway or pop. I would love to stay where I am now - a mix of everything.

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

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

I don't see categories; I don't see styles - l see them all gelled together. And it was gospel that definitely helped me to do that.

For me, there are no borders in music in general.

The cool thing about Americana is that the genre is accepting of all types of music.

I came up at a time in the late '60s, early '70s where music was without boundaries. You'd go into a music store, and the music was in alphabetical order. I hadn't heard of that word 'genre.'

Normally, things are viewed in these little segmented boxes. There's classical, and then there's jazz; romantic, and then there's baroque. I find that very dissatisfying. I was trying to find the thread that connects one type of music - one type of musician - to another, and to follow that thread in some kind of natural, evolutionary way.

We have a rock audience, classical audience, metal, pop - everything. We unite them all.

It's funny; people get so doctrinaire about music. It should be the last thing you don't have an open mind about.

When I got out of the Nazz, I had it in my mind that simply to be eclectic was an important aspect of making music. It was something that I derived from The Beatles.

All that stuff about heavy metal and hard rock, I don't subscribe to any of that. It's all just music. I mean, the heavy metal from the '70s sounds nothing like the stuff from the '80s, and that sounds nothing like the stuff from the '90s. Who's to say what is and isn't a certain type of music?

What I do isn't black music; it's just my music.

We play melodic music, we play songs, we play all kinds of things and when you improvise you don't just shut out different languages, you use all the languages that you have.

Am I R&B because I'm black? Am I pop because I have a song called 'Milkshake'? Or can I just be who the hell I am? Good Lord, people make it seem like we're doing heart transplants here, but we're just making music!

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

Bob Marley is one of the most recognized artists. He didn't care to be defined. People wondered, 'Is it reggae? Is it rock?' But at the end of the day they were still playing his music and that's what matters.

I'm a mutt as far as music is concerned because I listen to everything.

The Beatles and Ray Charles were in the same charts together, and that was just called pop music - it wasn't called soul or rock. The best pop music just stands out as something that's just original, and I think it should all be called pop again.