Ricky Reed Quotes

What is nice about country music today is that most artists are not trying to do something everybody else is doing. They really are trying to develop their own uniqueness.

I don't try to make the guitar sound like the harpsichord or lute. That makes you end up being like a bad copy.

I wanted to make good records. But my problem is I've got a low boredom threshold, so I wanted it to look and sound different with each album, which is really tantamount to suicide, cause people lose it, they lose it - they say: 'I like that, and that's not this.'

If you're always thinking about someone else's work, about the tradition you're working in, how can you possibly make anything good?

No two people on earth are alike, and it's got to be that way in music or it isn't music.

I study what's happening in music. I want to sound different than everybody else.

You hear ten seconds of a song, and you know it's OutKast. There's a strangeness about it because it's catchy, but it's not just pop for the sake of pop. They're pushing the envelope.

It's either you finna create your own wave, you finna sound like me or you finna sound like G Herbo, you finna sound like Chance The Rapper, you finna sound like Juice Wrld. You ain't gonna get too far 'cause you sound like somebody. So, create your own lane and do your own style.

My style influences my music and everything around me.

I've never sampled just one artist, I'm known for my reputation and my creativity.

I've always taken it upon myself to be a pioneer or a leader, and create a different sound, not just go by what the radio is playing at the time.

Don't be afraid to play what you feel and what you think no matter what it is. If you play long enough, you start to move past your influences and find your own music.

I always make a point to make my records different. Let's say I have a record that's influenced by hip-hop in an abstract way; for the next record, I'd try not to do that. They are all connected in a personal way but it's important not to repeat myself, because then I can always learn something about myself through my work.

Photographers who come up with power never get accused of imitating anyone else even though they photograph the same broom, same street, same portraits.

I don't want to sound like Ross; I don't want to sound like Puff. I want to make my own music: French Montana.

I'm dead serious about my craft and just really serious about making music in itself. I take pride in making songs and albums where no two songs sound alike. That's the challenge and that's what it's all about, to keep it original and fresh and funky.

If you stick with a vision, it might not all work, but some of it will be absolute genius. To me, 15 minutes worth of absolute genius in a film is so much better than two hours of mediocrity. I would rather pay to see something different like that.

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

The businessman says 'If I don't do it first, somebody else will.' The artist says 'If I don't do it first, nobody else will.'

Every top player has his own style, just as every painter has his own personal signature.

Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.

I'm proud that with 'Bright Eyes' we've always experimented and tried to make a different record every time out.

Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.

I'm not trying to become a pop artist, and I'm not trying to make sure I stay a country artist. I'm just trying to make sure I make the best music I can, according to my way.

I never tried to revolutionise photography; I just do what I do and keep my fingers crossed that people will like it.