Lil Nas X Quotes

I can't just turn over and sing disco or rock.

I've done the country, done the pop-rock, done the super-hard electro.

You have got to make new music, that is the way that I look at it anyway.

I really want to explore every genre that I can.

I like to experiment when it comes to music.

My fans are like, 'Lab does what he does,' which is really cool. If I came out with a Jack White rock tune tomorrow, people would be like, 'Yeah, cool man,' which is great.

When you say, 'Man, what kind of music does Outkast make?' You be like, 'They make Outkast music.' What kind of music does N.E.R.D. make? They make N.E.R.D. music. I want to be one of those people, because there's so many layers to the music I create that I don't want people to expect me to do one thing.

Every movie you score you hope is unlike anything you have done before. You are always trying to not sound like yourself.

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.

I love hip-hop and soul, but I desperately want to challenge it and see what I can bring to it.

What I want to happen is to be really creative, and to play something new in the improvisations, every time.

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.

To keep creating something with this type of music, you have to take it out of the box.

Creating any type of art is all about mood. I've been making extreme music in one fashion or another for decades. And truthfully, Down has a big enough fan base to where I could remain content to do only that, but music is a vast territory and I am an explorer. And I'm a lover of all things considered extreme in music.

Musicians tend to get bored playing the same thing over and over, so I think it's natural to experiment.

Music is music. It doesn't matter if I am trying to aim at country or trying to aim at pop.

If we do a record, and there's a reggae song, it's not shocking to us. If we do an all hip-hop song, it's not shocking to us. We all listen to that sort of music. It's not about what's in at the time; it's what feels right to us and what we're comfortable in doing.

I want to explore all genres.

I never want to make one type of music. You wouldn't just eat sushi for the rest of your life - there's so much more food.

Musically, I try not to box things in. I try to just play around this spectrum of influences: soul, jazz, and hip-hop.

I listen to different artists. I open my mind to different artists.

There are so many forms of soul: David Bowie was soulful as hell; Johnny Cash was soulful as hell; you also have a Prince, a Stevie Wonder. I want to bring my perception of that and not live inside the box of, 'This is the type of tracks you get,' 'This is the type of drums you get.'

It seems like music gets put in this hub where you have to rap about this, and the minute you do something else, it's like you changing. Nah, I'm being creative.

I don't jump on to singing every song of mine because I feel that will make my music repetitive.

Musically, I'm always gonna take it a little farther, and Lord willing, people are gonna get that and understand that: that there's not really one genre I'm trying to be in, but just as a producer, as a writer, as an artist, that I'm planning on going farther.