Nancy Wilson Quotes

I don't like to focus on just hip-hop because with hip-hop, I can only do so much; with a vocalist, I can only do so much, but the limitations are varying.

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

I never excluded any genre on my first record.

One thing that sticks in my mind is that jazz means freedom and openness. It's a music that, although it developed out of the African American experience, speaks more about the human experience than the experience of a particular people.

They believed you can't mix rock, country, and rap, and that crossover is dead. I always knew it would work. And it will always work as long as you're really into it and like what you're doing.

Music is music; you don't have to put a label on it.

I'm not really allowed to talk about the Dead though. I think when we are at our best, we definitely do things that the Dead or no other band could do. We explore things and take things to the extreme.

I'm glad there are a lot of guitar players pursuing technique as diligently as they possibly can, because it leaves this whole other area open to people like me.

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

I associate creativity with independent music.

But I did that, and I created another blues scene, another something I can sing about.

I love music passionately. And because I love it I try to free it from barren traditions that stifle it.

In Atlanta, there's no limitation to where you can take your music. You can be as creative as you want to be.

I've been really trying to hone the art of songwriting in a way that doesn't follow any sort of guideline.

I find there is room in music to talk with music. It may expand ways people can participate with music. It doesn't sound hokey or like some kind of voice-over.

I want to keep pushing the limits for drummers and expressing myself.

Although I dig my guitar playing, I think it's kind of an obvious situation; I play what I want to play within my own restrictions.

Michael was a type of person the whole family went behind who crossed all borders with his music.

The goal of serious musicians is to play outside of yourself. That's most likely with people who suggest things that are outside your musical experience.

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.'

Who's to say a blues man can't play rock and roll?

If tomorrow I want to release a rock album or I want to release a bachata album, nobody can tell me anything - why can't I?

I'm aware of the subgenres and why they exist. But I don't feel like I have to limit myself. I don't feel like I just have to play deep house, just play tribal house, just play progressive house. I wouldn't feel right if I had to limit myself.

You have got to stress the freedom of music to really branch out and be universal.

I discovered that I didn't want to be strict like a German composer.