Lee Tae-min Quotes

I don't have a genre because I play lots of different music that people would say are different genres.

People say my music is English. I don't know what it is. Maybe it's not me writing English music, but that English music is becoming more like me.

I just loved classical music, but I also loved playing rock guitar, and I loved playing piano, so it was a natural thing that those things would merge at some point.

The folk music definition has changed in this fast music world and musical styles are blending really quickly.

You don't just have to be influenced by rock, or goth, anymore. It's okay to say, 'My influences are Tin Pan music from Bali and Rihanna.' There are still so many combinations that haven't been done yet.

I've always said that I count myself as a classical crossover artist. To be so, you have to have the core classical training, which I did for many, many years, but also be interested in the pop side of things. You can fit in somewhere in the middle. I feel I do that really well.

Dance music is like a virus: it has affected so many different genres.

All over the world, the idea of creating an melange of international musics, it's a very healthy thing.

We deliberately used elements from Brazilian music and from African and Asian music. Now people can hear that but then it sounded so abstract, they couldn't hear it.

I have a very pop voice, but there's so much of me I associate mostly with urban music, so I try to blend the two.

'Supafunkrock' is a musical gumbo. We throw all those musical influences into the pot and put it out there.

I always wanted to merge heavy metal with pop music, but I think that because I grew up more with pop, the Beatles and the Stones, I tended to affiliate myself with those projects.

I wouldn't categorize myself as R&B or hip-hop. I don't really know how to categorize myself. I'm still working out where I fit with that stuff. I kind of think of myself as pop.

People should listen to my music if they are into a lot of different genres and kind of want to get it all at once, if they want to listen to a story, an interesting story about somebody else.

American music is a powerful ingredient in international music, and as much as it comes from within, it also comes from without.

My genre of music is called Afro-Fusion because I fuse different types of music into a ball.

English and world music were something that I had immense love for, and to get together with a fellow Indian and bring this sound and vibe to the world feels great.

I think K-Pop is something that sucks people in because it's open. I can do pop, EDM, rock, R&B and it doesn't matter, K-Pop embraces them all.

Swavey, it puts more than one genre of music together. That's the approach I have with all music I do.

Even though I have a huge love for alternative music and punk music, particularly, I have always had the love for pop music inside of me. Therefore actually it felt kind of natural for me to have different projects with different genres.

I try to not go, 'I'm writing a pop song.' Music is inherently genre-bending.

My particular space has always been quite unique in popular music. I have a background in R&B and hard rock and straight pop, but I never went all the way with any of those genres.

The whole cultural diversity and musical diversity, I think they almost go hand in hand, you know? It's like a mind space or a it's having an open mind to what else is out there.

I never had a problem moving between jazz and hip-hop.

We grew up with every type of band from Primus to Mr. Bungle to Elton John to pop music to metal, and we try to throw it all in a blender. And whatever comes out of that is more Avenged Sevenfold than metal or metalcore.