Weyes Blood Quotes

The Shins is, in a way, a recording project that turned into a live band. So I don't really keep myself beholden to any rules when I'm in the studio for Shins. I just gotta get it done as best I can.

When I was younger I didn't really know what genre of music I'd want to do because I'd always done so many different types, so many impressions.

All along, I did what I was comfortable doing, which was to play the music I enjoyed and try to stretch the parameters a bit. Country and bluegrass and folk were my foundation.

I found the blues too limiting, and classical was too disciplined.

Jazz is not the format where I want to stay, but it really is a starting point for me.

When I first started singing, I didn't know which direction to take - I sang rock & roll and all kinds of things.

I started playing in my first band when I was 12. I like to date myself by saying I was in a New Age band when it wasn't ironic; it was actually called new wave because it was new.

In all of my years in this business, I've always been part of either a progressive band or a metal band.

Andy Chase and I were keyboard players originally, and we became guitarists later. But it's fun for us to focus more on the keyboard stuff sometimes.

I listen to all kinds of music and sometimes I try to do something that's referential to an era or a genre, but it still sounds like me.

At 14, I was in my own little classic rock country band. Then, after high school, I started another band called Northern Comfort. That was based out of Chico, Calif.

I've always had a close connection to both rock and classical music.

I love all Yes music and love to play it live, but I'm most interested in making new music with Yes.

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.

I never excluded any genre on my first record.

Since the inception of Gym Class in 1997, every member has had another musical outlet, if not three or four.

I don't like rock. Honestly, I like to listen to it, but it's not for me. There's a lot of musical genres that I find interesting, but they don't suit me. It's one thing to listen to different genres, but to perform a genre that isn't yours is counterproductive.

They believed you can't mix rock, country, and rap, and that crossover is dead. I always knew it would work. And it will always work as long as you're really into it and like what you're doing.

Music is music; you don't have to put a label on it.

I've done the country, done the pop-rock, done the super-hard electro.

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.

I think that Yes' music is kind of on its own out there, and it goes through different chapters, and that involves different people. I don't think it's a case of 'any year is better than any other.' They can all co-exist quite comfortably.

I think music is so diverse today, and bands are so diverse. If you were a rock band in the Eighties, you kind of had to stick to one thing. Now, in this age of Coachella and European festivals and stuff, it's kind of anything goes, so that allowed us to try different things.

After moving to England I did some recording and eventually formed an English band, this was together for quite a few years with only a keyboard replacement. The band had no name, just my name.

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.