Wynter Gordon Quotes

I don't see categories; I don't see styles - l see them all gelled together. And it was gospel that definitely helped me to do that.

What I'm trying to do is break the genre from what is rap and what is music.

I worked with different producers from all genres, trying to bridge different styles of music, from urban to electronica to ballads.

I love rock, pop, and funk. I love being able to blend these three and create something unique for people.

I just would use any instrument known to man in any combination as long as it describes an emotion.

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.

For us, it is all about breaking the boundaries between different genres of music and combining different styles of music and performing what we are passionate about. We are so lucky that we can experience both worlds: the more intimate classical world and the wild and crazy world of rock n' roll.

As an actor, you express certain things because they need to be expressed, and then you don't really feel a need to do it again. I want to feel something else, you know?

I love writing. I love the swirl and swing of words as they tangle with human emotions.

I think that is what film and art and music do; they can work as a map of sorts for your feelings.

I love Slipknot. But then I like Jao Gilberto... It's the spirit that comes through in music.

People don't listen to one radio station. On iTunes you can mix different worlds and bring country and pop and folk and live music together with a mass audience. I could have sung 'Easy' in a country way but I just sang it how I sing. I think it's a really nice blend.

I like the idea of an eclectic approach, incorporating jazz with other forms and other genres of music.

I wanted to connect my guitar to human emotions.

I'm a fan of FKA Twigs, The Weeknd. I love that kind of ambient R&B. I feel like it's just another soldier in the war to blur the lines and make things to where it's good music and bad music.

I think a guitar solo is how my emotion is most freely released, because verbal articulation isn't my strongest communication strength. My wife thinks that I should do interviews by listening to the questions and playing the answer on guitar.

I think that music, being an expression of the human heart, or of the human being itself, does express just what is happening - the whole of human experience at the particular time that it is being expressed.

I want people to understand balance. I might make a banger, and that's the way that I feel, and then I may want to make a song that's really deep.

When I first came out, country wouldn't touch me because I was way too rock, and rock wouldn't touch me because I was definitely country.

Of course, I'm open to all kinds of genres. In my head, there are no demarcations.

I always liked the content of a Common but the commercial viability of a Lil Jon. And I would say, 'Why don't those worlds ever come together?' So for me, it was like, 'Let's do that.'

I want people to really recognize that this is what I am naturally good at: I'm really good at making music and describing your feelings vicariously through my experiences, through my past and my future. I want people to relate to me in multiple ways and be versatile in my music.

I don't want to put a name on my music. Other people can put a name on what I do. It's just the union of what I've been listening to and what I've been learning. It has some elements of classical music, it has some rock, it has some jazz, but I don't want to give it a name.

Clarinet is often associated with certain genres, like swing or folk music. I combine the old and new, using the clarinet as an expressive tool and not in one genre. I'm just happy that people are drawn to what I do.

I've always had an eclectic taste in music. But what I try to do is combine these things in ways that others would never think of, like putting Bun B on an Elton John song.