Richie Furay Quotes

They could never put me in a slot. They couldn't say Glen was 'country,' 'pop' or 'rock.' I'm crock, OK? A cross between country and rock. Call me crock.

My music has always been sort of in between categories. Sometimes record stores - back when there were record stores - they'd put my records in the country music section, but other record stores would put my records in the pop or even the rock section. As long as it's in the store somewhere, I'm OK with it.

I do think that some bands seem to be dabbling in the rock-hip-hop world and are not necessarily serious about it.

We have been trying to play a lot of different kinds of music, and probably the next album will go back more towards the direction where you couldn't classify each song as a certain kind of music. This album you can.

I wouldn't necessarily say she is a country artist. I mean, obviously Taylor Swift started in country, but she morphed into somewhat of a cultural icon, so, who am I to judge what she is?

I don't like the idea of 'classical crossover,' even if sometimes I see this category given to what I'm doing.

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.

I guess one thing that makes my music stand out is that it is quite hard to determine what genre it is.

I don't like putting a name on my music. It's not just country and rap; it's got Southern rock, classic rock.

I think my music generally transcends a lot of genres.

When I first came out, country wouldn't touch me because I was way too rock, and rock wouldn't touch me because I was definitely country.

I've been criticized for doing so - crossover music. But I never claimed to be a pure dancehall artist.

I love country and rock, and I wanted to fuse them together. But I also knew that there were certain elements that needed to still be there to be both country and cater to my old fans.

One thing about Foster the People is that it's taking pieces of a lot of different genres of music and kind of melding them together.

The problem we have is that, some people call it 'too rock' to play on a jazz station, and it's 'too jazz' to play on a rock station. So it's difficult. It's difficult to make it playing this kind of music.

You can't do gospel and rap. Either you're of the gospel music, or you're a rapper. You can't put the two together. You can, but is it right? It's questionable.

And so many of the kinds of labels you get stuck with don't really tell the story; Progressive, Art Rock, Noise Music, Downtown - it ends up being a struggle to stay out of debates that other people are having around you.

I've always found that whatever you say about indie rock, it is the most inclusive genre or title for anything. It doesn't pin you down too much, like other labels would. It's just newer, it has less baggage. I'm happy to be in that category.

Genres aren't closed boxes. Stuff flows back and forth across the borders all the time.

Defining something being a Fleetwood Mac song is calling it a Fleetwood Mac song, you know? Nothing becomes Fleetwood Mac until that's what you call it.

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

I don't really classify 'Wichita Lineman' as country.

It's really rare that an entire genre of music allows an artist from a different genre to come and live there.

I hate the term 'emo.' It turned into this genre of music, when all music, if you connect with it, is emotional.

'Sorry' just fit the bill for the crossover that both Lost Stories and I were attempting to do musically.