Dawn Richard Quotes

I'm so happy people are seeing the eclectic side of me. I'm really honored to be able to push my voice into different sounds. Otherwise it all gets a bit samey same.

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.

I've never played it safe on my own music.

Miles Davis fully embraced possibilities and delved into it. He was criticized heavily from the jazz side. He was supposed to be part of a tradition, but he didn't consider himself part of a tradition.

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.

I don't want to be held down by genres so much.

Being able to take musical ideas through every iteration is attractive to me. Granted, not everyone's going to want to listen to that, but it should exist.

Dylan doesn't have to make Blonde On Blonde every time.

I just want to keep making music, recording and trying different things. I don't want to do the same thing all the time.

My music is a direct reflection of the eclectic person I am. I don't like to be stuck in an R&B box.

It was about working with other musicians, but more than that it's about exploring musical areas that you could never do with the band you're in, in my case Judas Priest. You could tackle musical areas and lyrical areas that wouldn't be appropriate for Priest.

They have all different names for music. I think the music I'm going to change the style with is going to be really, really big-years and years after I'm gone.

All the big artists I talk to say that they are trapped in a formula and they are looking for the music of tomorrow.

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.

You need the past as a guideline. The history of music is a good basis, but to escape that stuff, that tortuous rulebook, you have to learn it first. It's kind of like religion - once you've written the Bible, that's it, move on.

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

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

It was a great time to be making music because everything else was changing.

It seems like everything I do musically I tend to lose a few fans and gain a few fans, and it all kind of evens out.

Every piece has its own identity which we develop by the rule 'We know no limits.' We follow the inspiration of the moment and don't worry if what we're playing is alternative, progressive or fusion rock.

After 'Mosaic,' I think a lot of people didn't know what my next record was going to be. And that's what I love. I just love doing music because I'm not going to follow the patterns and formulas of Music Row.

Music in general is looking for something new overall.

We always thought we had to follow a certain theme but I don't agree with that anymore. I think the fans deserve a wider variety of music.

I never thought of myself as being the singer that wanted to create an identity and then stick to that.

Towards the end with Pantera - although I was never unhappy with the music we were making - it became one-dimensional, and we wanted to open things back up.