Ben Barnes Quotes

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.

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

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 play punk rock, and I love playing punk rock, but I was into every other style of music before I played punk rock.

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.

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.

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.

Music is music. It doesn't matter if I am trying to aim at country or trying to aim at pop.

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

I certainly hope my music is in no way, shape or form influenced by anything that would be known as a jam band. If it is, then I'm going to do something else.

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

Some people think I'm a rock 'n' roll musician and some think I'm a jazz musician but, for me, there is no difference.

I love... different kinds of music. I like classical music and pop music. I like alternative, and I like rap, hip-hop, and I kind of collected all these things that I love, and they infused my sensibilities, and I just wanted to sing because it felt like it needed to come out of me.

The biggest misconception about us is that we're just a rock band. We think our music is a cross-section of many genres; a hybrid of what the six of us have grown up on.

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

When we started, a lot of bands sounded really different from one another.

I didn't want to go out and change anything. I just wanted to make the music that was part of my background, which was rock and blues and hip-hop.

From the beginning, I've always had a knack for catchy melodies. But I went through a period when I was trying to be rock n' roll and have a rock n' roll attitude. I was fighting my nature by trying to play really hard and sing really hard. But at a certain point, I realized that I loved syrupy pop music with tons of harmony.

We are just fans of music, we are not fans of a specific kind of music. We just happen to be a rock band. Until we explain ourselves, sometimes people don't understand why we limit ourselves to just being a rock band. It's because that is what we like doing.

So it's more the musician in me that makes me stretch out and try different things more than anything. But, like a lot of guitar players, I have one certain niche that's my thing that I'm better at than the others.

There's no field of music which doesn't have good ideas.

I guess I always think the people that know me or fans that have followed me and know my solo work would know that I've always had really eclectic tastes - even in Motley, dude.

I still dabble in different types of music, but I'm sticking to my Country roots.

All my music sounds the same to me.