Howie Dorough Quotes

These days, rock 'n' roll is much more about rock than about roll. I don't do rock. But I'm interested in that roll part, because that's the funny little bit that makes it hip.

I'd say I am a nice cross of R&B and Pop.

I'm this strange kind of fusion of jazz, pop, and R&B.

I listen to all kinds of music. The Calling, Blink 182, Bruce Springsteen, I mean, it's everything.

I'm not a folk or jazz singer, more a hard-edged pop singer - with some rock, and song hooks.

I listen to a mixture of old jazz, contemporary, pop, some world beat stuff and various odds and ends.

I've been hugely inspired by Khalid, XXX, Post Malone, and The Weekend. That's the kind of sound that has really inspired me.

I feel like pop and R&B are just my core.

I don't want people to think that just because I do club records, I can't do an album record or an R&B single. I can do R&B, I do pop, I do whatever - but it's still Mustard.

I listen to R&B and Hip Hop.

I do pop, so pop is very broad. It could be anything from the Weeknd to Taylor Swift to Beyonce to whatever is on the radio, basically.

If I do something related to English music, it will be definitely in the direction of R&B and pop.

I sing and write a lot of pop, R&B.

As much my music is dance music, it is also pop.

We're quite different from each other. Camila is the pop girl, Lauren likes the indie sound, Normani and I love R&B, and Ally is the pop-country, kind of church girl.

I try to listen to over a hundred different songs a day. I listen to every single thing. If you're just listening to pop music, you're just gonna make pop music. I listen to Adele, Yo Yo Ma, Gucci Mane.

I buy records from all across the board. I get kind of a hybrid of influences in my own music.

Radio is being dominated by records that are 120 beats per minute. R&B is about groove and soul.

I just felt like I'd rather listen to even the worst metal song more than most current pop music.

I feel like I'm a product of this generation where everybody listens to charts with diverse music.

I don't listen to the contemporary pop artists. They all sound alike, anyway.

Pop comes from the word 'popular,' which means that it could be anything that appeals to any group of people. When you talk about general masses, I think there's elements in every kind of music that can reach a broad audience.

I love all types of music. I love top 40 dance pop, hip-hop, I don't even know what they call it now. I'm a huge fan of all that.

Metal is still the biggest music now in America.

My parents were big music fans, and my dad plays music, so I grew up with Madonna, Frank Zappa, the Beatles, Alice In Chains... it was all over the place. I had a Third Eye Blind record, but I also had Korn, Courtney Love, and Shania Twain.