Grace Chatto Quotes

I love finding out-of-the-box inspirations and blending them with what I've done in the past. And when I started to experiment with genres, it didn't sound forced. Maybe that's because it's all music that I listened to growing up, and it's all music that I love.

I'm very, very open to experimenting with different people and trying to find different methods of writing and making music.

I feel like my music has so many different things going on. I've always worked with many different producers. And a lot of times, each of them has a different thing that I really love about what they do.

I love working with different artist with different styles and different producers with different sounds, creativity is everything.

I'd written songs with lots of people, from one spectrum to the other.

To break R&B into subcategories does a disservice to the music. I like to live in a zone where I can do whatever I want, where I don't have to worry about 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.

Hip hop is doing the new rock thing; there are no rules. They can do anything, really. And that's inspiring.

Singing is a limitless form of expression, and I love to experiment with my work.

It's nice just to be able to go out and, basically, be able to play other types of music and not have any pressure to almost explain it and justify why you did. I just do it because I like to have some fun.

Always try and play with as many people as possible, even if it's not your style of music, because you will learn a lot.

There are so many ideas that I have in my mind, of projects that I would love to tackle, people I would love to work with, genres I would love to experiment with, and sounds that don't fit any of my previous projects that I need to find a home for.

It struck me that it would be fun to just play stuff with Hauschka. Not even have a project in mind, but just get together and make up some music and see what came out.

Genre hopping is something I intend to do, and I intend to do it forever and ever because I think genres are boring.

I feel my voice can fit in many things so it's very interesting to combine things and music styles.

Whether it's a song that might deviate from an artists' usual sound or even if it's still very much in their world, I think the more people opening themselves up creatively to collaborate with others, the better.

I think the people are just looking for freedom in music...There's a lot of she-bop she-bop going on out there. Maybe they're tired of that same old thing.

Do not be precious about your music within your own world. Try everything you want to try; just because it exists doesn't mean it's done.

For anybody to say well this is not Hip Hop and that's not Hip Hop, that is not the way the formula was laid down. It was for the people who were going to continue take anything musically and string it along.

I just go with the flow, so any style can be in my music - that makes it exciting.

I came up playing in both punk rock bands and hip-hop bands, and I found a more universal way of reaching people, especially with music that has a message to it.

I think that all my albums are different enough where I don't feel like I did this the last time.

I've seen and learned enough to keep my music fresh and spread out.

Me as an artist, I've ventured off into doing all types of music. I'll do a jazz album, you know what I mean.

In terms of music, I can try anything I want, even something that doesn't work at all, because I'm not putting my career in jeopardy.