Ella Purnell Quotes

I want to explore all genres.

When I was growing up, I wasn't in bands, and had really no intention of ever doing music. I went out to California for college, and kind of on a whim started making music really as a joke, and over the course of the next five years started playing a lot of shows, and music became this really integral part of my identity.

I played with the same band for years and years and there's a beauty to having one solid core that you keep exploring. On the other hand, it's nice to throw yourself in different situations where you find out things about your own resources.

It never gets boring for me because there's so many different things to explore in the studio. The studio's become the sanctuary that people have come in and found new things out about themselves, as weird as that sounds. But it's true, I'm no different. I've made some crazy hard records, and I've made a jazz album.

Being on a musical quest was something I always enjoyed.

I am trying every genre.

I think I have allowed my voice to experiment with the different genres. And I think that I have just really enjoyed the journey of getting to know my voice and seeing what it's capable of, what it's not capable of.

For the longest time, I didn't even want to admit I was serious about music. Before the Shins, I would tell myself, 'Oh, I'm going to figure something out someday.' I had this romantic vision of being this old dude maybe making guitars or something.

I want them to come away with discovering the music inside them. And not thinking about themselves as jazz musicians, but thinking about themselves as good human beings, striving to be a great person and maybe they'll become a great musician.

I had an indie pop phase, I had just about every phase you could think of.

If I'm inspired and music inspires me, then I will continue to play it.

My intentions have been, and are always, to just really get behind what my ideas are musically and to just ride this thing out, cause it feels good, and I think for the most part it's good music. Even when it's not, I'd like to still search for something that could be even like a little bit mind-blowing or shocking to me.

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

Joining Modest Mouse was just consistent with what I used to do as a teenager: I followed where I thought I would make some interesting music.

I play piano and guitar and I do write my own stuff so to a certain extent I know what I want to do in regards to music. But I'm still finding out what kind of music is my favourite kind to listen to, never mind do myself so I've got a lot of time to find out myself and develop myself as an artist.

I try to get underneath the skin of all kinds of music, and I never know what's going to inspire me and what makes me crazy.

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.

I really want to explore every genre that I can.

There's an amazing power that music has, and it definitely had its power over me as a boy. I just saw fit to keep exploring it.

I think everyone has music inside them, and my hope is that I can help them find it.

Travel is always connected to music, as with travel, we explore the world, and by listening music, we explore ourselves.

With so many genres, music is so diverse, which is why it is an exciting thing to do in life.

People come in because they like 'Old Town Road.' They'll find out that I'm just not going to stick to that.

For me, music is just one road. I dont have a specific pursuit; generally. I just try to be more aware of myself.

I think I have a more wider scope for music, I have more taste for music.