Ludovico Einaudi Quotes

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

Growing up with country, R&B, gospel, and classical music from my grandmother and pop, Tuskegee was the perfect melting pot for my influences as a writer.

Musically, I try not to box things in. I try to just play around this spectrum of influences: soul, jazz, and hip-hop.

Most people say, 'Well, Earl, you sing the blues,' or however they want to categorize it. I just sing songs.

The whole path of American music has been so much about the recognition of stylistic diversity, and the recognition of the importance of music which was from one of the vernacular traditions.

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.

In the range of music that we play - roughly 300 years' worth-there really are more similarities than differences.

Taxi drivers used to ask me what kind of music I did, and I'd say, 'Well, it's kind of jazz, soul, classical' - but that makes no sense to anyone.

People always tell me I'm the complete opposite of Chief Keef and act like I'm supposed to stop him from making his music. But I like Chief Keef, so it's always super awkward. I just make music I like.

I grew up listening to everything. And rock and roll has always been a big, big part of it - as big a part of what I do as any other type of music.

Musically, my palette is eclectic.

I have been influenced by music. I grew up listening to blues, jazz and all.

I want to explore all genres.

I think, until I was 16, classical music had just seemed like a little bit of a rhythmic wasteland for me. Coming from bluegrass, where one conducts oneself rhythmically, it seemed like such a different approach, and at that point the difference that I was noticing was a real turn off to me.

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 don't think there's such a difference between older and newer music as there is between one composer and another.

I don't really hear the Beatles when I listen to my own music.

Puerto Rico's relationship with music is everything. It's an island full of talent and if you grow up there, you grow up living and breathing music.

For anybody to say well this is not Hip Hop and that's not Hip Hop, that is not the way the formula was laid down. It was for the people who were going to continue take anything musically and string it along.

I've got a collection of songs that I've had, I keep adding to and they're all great American composers. I wanted to showcase American composers and I've done that on a lot of my records and played things by American composers that I really respect.

It's probably a combination of personal and non-personal matters that have led us to where we are musically.

What is music about? You can't listen to one era, one composer, and know what music is about.

I can't just turn over and sing disco or rock.

Blues and soul and jazz music has so much pain, so much beauty of raw emotion and passion.

In other words, musicians know that going back to the Spoonful, what we were doing was not copying.