Brendon Urie Quotes

I have a very difficult time describing my music.

I don't think I'm a country artist, really. I'm a country person, but I don't think I'm necessarily a country singer or musician.

Unfortunately it's easy to just label us as part of a Laurel Canyon sound. What we try to do is to be unique.

I think my music covers a broader sound than just 'Tropical House'... My goal is to simply be a great producer in my own right without being pigeonholed.

We don't feel like we changed from rave, because we were never rave, to punk, because we're not punk.

You know, somebody mentioned that I was sort of a jazz-pop singer. And I'm thrilled that somebody would find that, at last, in my presentation, because it's such a part of where I live.

I have always been a singer/songwriter, and I was pushed in places I didn't want to do, like pop or top forty. I don't belong there.

I found a certain kind of music congenial to me; it never occurred to me to write music that was academically acceptable.

U2 is an original species... there are colours and feelings and emotional terrain that we occupy that is ours and ours alone.

I can't do some of the songs that younger girls like Mary J. Blige and Beyonce are doing. They have their own place and I have my own place.

You've got to separate the singer and the songs.

Rilo Kiley was a rock band, so I wanted my solo records to feel different.

I'm playing with music and working on different types of music. But I've realised that I can't really stray from what is my marker.

Some people think I'm a rock 'n' roll musician and some think I'm a jazz musician but, for me, there is no difference.

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 was being categorized as some kind of twangy songwriter. And that's just not how I see myself.

I am, and always will be, a blues guitarist.

And so many of the kinds of labels you get stuck with don't really tell the story; Progressive, Art Rock, Noise Music, Downtown - it ends up being a struggle to stay out of debates that other people are having around you.

No matter what I do, my songs come out in a certain style, and if that sounds like Dead Kennedys, then there's probably a reason for it. Don't forget, I wrote most of those songs, music and lyrics.

I felt Michael Jackson was inspired a little bit more from the elegance of a Fred Astaire. Michael loved Sammy Davis, Jr. and James Brown and Judy Garland and Fred Astaire. But he wasn't any of those people. To be inspired is one thing, but he made it all his own.

I'm a pop princess at heart. Pop is about distilling what you want to say and making it easy. And the way I write isn't about making things easy. It's a weird juxtaposition.

I was trying to establish an identity in music, and black and white had nothing to do with it.

I'm not an intellectual composer.

I have a very difficult time describing my music. Because I run into people in the hardware store and they go, 'Oh, you're a musician. So what kind of music do you play?' And I go, 'Uh, I've been doin' this for many years - I don't know what to call it.'

My music is - I don't want to say my main focus, but it's what comes most naturally to me.