Tom Cochrane Quotes

I don't want to be held down by genres so much.

The greatest thing about music is everyone has their own style, and I respect all styles of music.

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.

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

I just know that I'm a fan of all different kinds of genres. You're supposed to be free doing music, and that's how I feel.

I grew up listening to everything. I have such a love for music, but I don't want to make the same album over and over again.

I listen to all types of music so I'm influenced by everything.

My job as an entertainer is to take you some place else. I love exploring different genres of music to please my fans.

Where my tastes in music are concerned, I'm a real maximalist.

I think the industry is oblivious to the fact that most people listen to all kinds of stuff. I personally don't know of anyone who listens to only one genre of music. It's vanity because no one does.

That's the kind of musical freedom I like: jazz, rock, blues, anything. You adopt different attitudes when you play different music.

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.

I'm literally into any type of music imaginable.

I would never say I will stay in electronic music for the rest of my life. I will always do whatever I feel like at that moment.

I like writing different types of music. I don't like being stuck into one thing.

I listen to all kinds of music - new music, old music, music of my colleagues, everything.

I love all forms of music. I even like music I dislike, because the music you dislike is like going to a strange country, and it forces you to rethink everything and to appreciate its particular joys.

My music is a direct reflection of the eclectic person I am. I don't like to be stuck in an R&B box.

I can make any type of music, so I wouldn't want to describe myself as having one type of sound. I think music is about keeping it diverse.

This band is a real collaboration, and I'm greatful to anybody who can appreciate our music. It doesn't have to be a certain kind of fan or person or anything. I think there's a little bit of something for everybody on this record.

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

You need the past as a guideline. The history of music is a good basis, but to escape that stuff, that tortuous rulebook, you have to learn it first. It's kind of like religion - once you've written the Bible, that's it, move on.

I like to think of my style as pretty versatile. And I'd like whatever I record to reflect that to be mostly genre - to be just something that people want to listen on to see what I'm going to come up with next. That's the kind of music I'm into.

My father loved all different types of music. He wasn't a snob. He wasn't a purist.

I love music. I love every kind of extreme sort of music, and many different genres, and if I were to have to dedicate myself to just one kind of genre, I would feel kind of gypped. I'd be like, man, I wish I could do this or that. And really all it takes is trying it out.