Vince Gill Quotes

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 don't want to be stuck to any specific genre.

Of course, I'm open to all kinds of genres. In my head, there are no demarcations.

That's the beauty of Black Eyed Peas, we don't pigeonhole ourselves into just one category. We're the chameleons of hip-hop.

I feel comfortable in my pop shoes. They let me walk in any direction. I like to go from one extreme to the other. One day I feel that I want to do a song with reggaeton influence, I do it. The next day I feel I need to do a song with rock elements to it, I do it.

I like writing different types of music. I don't like being stuck into one thing.

I try not to get trapped in any one musical or visual style at all.

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

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

I just like blending all the genres together but blending them up in a good way. I try to be as free as I can with it.

I always play so many different styles that I don't think anything I do surprises anyone.

To record an album and stick to one specific style isn't really my thing.

I feel my voice can fit in many things so it's very interesting to combine things and music styles.

I'll never stick to one sound, I switch it up.

I don't want to limit myself musically. It would be really limiting if we'd neglect something we really want to do, like explore other styles of music.

A lot of singers find a musical genre people like and stick with it. That's being a conformist. I sing ballads, rock, salsa, rap.

I am a big fan of music in general. I listen to all genres: hip-hop, R&B, whatever sounds good to me; it doesn't matter to me where it comes from - there are no boundaries, no fences. If I like it, then it will inspire me to create.

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.

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.

What I love about Beyonce is she's not a slave to a genre of music.

I like to think of my style as pretty versatile. And I'd like whatever I record to reflect that to be mostly genre - to be just something that people want to listen on to see what I'm going to come up with next. That's the kind of music I'm into.

I never thought that I would be creating my own 'cross-over' genre. What I did was very real and organic. I have worked in so many different styles so it all just came together.

Being in several, disparate bands is what I thrive on.

When I started writing, I just wanted to do something different and creative. I first thought neo-soul was a good pathway for me, so I tried that out but realized I didn't want to be placed in that box.