Crystal Bowersox Quotes

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

As an artist, I would never let myself get boxed in. I'm a human being, too, and like most humans, I have interest in many different types of music.

I don't really believe in the type of pressure that people are wanting to put on the type of music that I make.

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

I believe that music should really be without boundaries.

I try to stay away from any genre. I like to just make music, and it just is what it is.

I just know that I'm a fan of all different kinds of genres. You're supposed to be free doing music, and that's how I feel.

I didn't get into music to become a blues musician, or a country musician. I'm a singer-songwriter. In my book that means I get to do whatever I want.

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.

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

I never excluded any genre on my first record.

I'm really open to doing music. We just have to figure out what kind of music it's going to be - something where I don't feel compromised.

I've always tried to stay clear of being labeled, putting a label on what type of music that I make.

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

Listen, man: I am not the industrial godfather, king, whatever. I don't relish that title. I don't like it. I think it's limiting. I do country, I do blues. I don't just go straight.

Country taught me how to sing, it put me on a path. But I was never going to be locked into a formula. I don't want to be considered a current country artist.

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 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.

I think my music generally transcends a lot of genres.

I hate labels; the problem is that if you say you're one thing, it's hard for people to imagine you as something else. Music is way more complicated than that.

It doesn't matter the kind of music, it doesn't matter whether it's a cowboy hat or a yarmulke. I don't care if it's outer space or pop, the spirit is the same.

I never got tied down to any social scene. I was just into creating stuff. And I think, even today, that's how I'm able to work and move between so many different genres - I want to be part of what's happening, I want to make new things.

I don't like to box myself into anything, because I also sing and I love to dance; I do everything.

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.