JPEGMAFIA Quotes

Every record that you do man, is sooo different in every way.

There were people who incorporated melody before me, but I would deem myself the first person to successfully rap and sing.

Historically, black music has influenced other cultures and other genres and created other genres.

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.

'Blueprint 3' is made up of songs, but it's also a commentary on the idea that in order for rap to survive, we have to stretch out the drama. We have to stretch out the audience. It can't be this narrow - we have to stretch out the point of view.

People get caught up in recreating something, and that actually hurts the genre of music because there's nothing new.

With Moloko, we tried to be the opposite of what was out there at the time. I like to be different. In the mid-Nineties, music was quite dour and serious, and everything was dressed down. So we went the other way. Our first record was about not wanting to do four-to-the-floor dance music.

R&B needs to see a new light. It doesn't have to be pigeonholed.

I think the '70s was a much healthier period for music because people were more innovative and creative.

I've never been one to just play safe music and think that's all there is to it.

I've been making music for so long, and the main hurdles I've run when dealing with any public exposure is that many of my projects are so different from each other.

The problem we have is that, some people call it 'too rock' to play on a jazz station, and it's 'too jazz' to play on a rock station. So it's difficult. It's difficult to make it playing this kind of music.

And I'm interested in writing music that takes risks. My point is that maybe the term EDM is pinned on me and my buddies, but maybe it'll be less so if I experiment.

The thing about places like Trinidad and Jamaica is that they can be very musically insular. There isn't much space for kids making hip-hop, electronic music, or hybrid genres.

I think for a while, a lot of artists were doing great things that... were broadening the audience so that country was cool.

I'm constantly trying to introduce new voices in Tamil film music.

In the beginning, Babymetal received critical comments since the genre was new, but now we have an impression that Babymetal's music is getting accepted and spreading as one genre of music.

What I ended up learning was that I had to do what I do well, and do it really well and say, 'Maybe there is no pop music that sounds like this now, but I can make it so maybe tomorrow what I like can be what everybody likes.'

Some people are really surprised that I can sing different ways.

There's so many ways you can play one chord progression that the repetition isn't ever exactly the same.

I think my music is a little shocking to some people because my voice is very traditional-sounding, and my music is not.

Music is constantly developing and changing.

I have a high range. Sometimes I sound like Stevie Winwood. Some people say I sound like Peter Gabriel. Some of the songs I write are funky. Others are slow. Some are ponderous, and some are there to shock. I must say some are pretty damn good, too.

You know, rock n' roll's an old carcass: it's one big cliche. It's so difficult to do anything that has any sense of freshness or vitality or meaning. But that's what I'm trying to do, to give it new meaning.

My music is very global.