Mat Kearney Quotes

We have such a mixture now, such a fusion of different genres.

I love that on country radio, you can hear a George Strait song, and the next is Sam Hunt. I love that there's such a variety.

I feel like, genre-wise, the walls are coming down in Nashville. There are so many writers who have moved to town from all walks of life. There's this immense respect for country, but there are pop songwriters, R&B. Nashville has become sort of this go-to writing city for every genre.

Barriers have been broken: rappers are singing, and singers are rapping. You might catch a rapper on a rock song, a pop artist on a hip-hop song - there are so many different things that are going on today. That is the same way in which we live our lives; we're all over the place. I like to try different things.

I'm a mutt as far as music is concerned because I listen to everything.

I love mixing up my genres.

I mix up all styles on my albums because that is what music is about now.

I don't limit my taste. There's some jazz that I like and there's some opera. I've been listening to what was essentially country music, but it crossed over to rock.

I don't really like to put stuff in a box as far as genre-specific.

I think my set is more so mixed in everything. It's not just EDM.

My aim is to bridge Broadway and the R&B world; and to bring all my Broadway experience to the R&B world; and one day, when I go back to Broadway, to bring some R&B to that.

We like to combine genres. Theo grew up listening to punk, and I love Christina Aguilera.

I had phases of listening to rap and trap, and then I had phases where I'd listen to post-hardcore, rap, grunge, metal... all that. I had different time periods of listening to different music. And now it all clashes together.

All of the genres are just blending now, which I think is another super-cool thing.

I try to cross as many genres as possible with the same attitude. I want every song to be very clear.

I keep my hip-hop as hip-hop, my R&B as R&B and my pop as pop. The ability to cross those boundaries and do all these things effectively is not commonly done.

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.

American music is always best when it comes from a mixture of things.

The cool thing about Americana is that the genre is accepting of all types of music.

The lines have definitely blurred between country and pop music.

I love all music. I'm not specific. I don't just love one genre!

Country is and always will be my heart, but I don't have a problem with it spilling over into pop if it wants to.

I have the most eclectic music taste out there. I can be listening to an indie pop song just as easily as I could be listening to a Carly Simon song from the '70s to a country song.

I try to take elements from all kinds of music. Even if I'm listening to anything off the wall, like Britney Spears, there might be a certain way someone did something, that I can feel, in some hip-hop flavor.

I'm honestly all over the board. I think if I had to pick one, I'd probably say it's country first, but I listen to literally everything: country, pop, rock, rap.