Martha Wainwright Quotes

It's really odd, but whatever we do and whatever style we might tackle, we always sound like us.

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

When you hear me, you know it's me, regardless of the song.

I love singing. It's who I am. When I act, I take a small part of myself and just magnify it, but when I'm singing, that's who I am. I don't write music, so I choose songs that I would have written.

I try not to repeat myself in fills in all the Rush songs unless it is something simple or something I feel is my own characteristic thing.

I feel that through my father's music I've found my own voice in my own playing.

What I can offer the game is creating a sound that, when you hear it, you know it's mine.

I could draw up a list of about 30 artists who I apparently sound like. From Lady Gaga, to Katy Perry to Lana Del Rey. I don't know if it's because I'm versatile or because production affects how people judge music. I can't wait for a time I can just be classed as myself.

I wanted to give people a taste of my own music through the sound and style of my covers.

I know that people think of me in terms of Latin music and that's wonderful, that's my heritage, that's who I am, but there's so much more to me and my music.

I always make music that is true to my spirit.

Arranging is the way I put my stamp on my music as much as my guitar playing.

If you have music that sounds like what you cover, people won't be able to differentiate who you are.

I've been in the studio experimenting on making a CD of my own. I'm trying out different producers, styles, sounds. With music, as opposed to acting, you are not playing a character. You are showing people who you are. I really want to have my spirit in it.

I realized that, all along, my theory was right: Make music that you want to hear, and instead of having fans that one day might criticize or abandon you, your fans aren't even fans. They're people with tastes similar to yours. They're friends you haven't met yet.

I have a very difficult time describing my music.

I think Westlife is very unique: we have a certain sound; we do our thing our way, and we don't try to change too much. I think that's what the fans love about us. We keep giving the fans what they want every year. The style of music never really changes too much.

I have to be my own artist. I need the world to know who I am, especially for music. When it comes to acting, that is a whole other story. I have no complaints; that's a team effort. It's not just me, it's everyone. But when it comes to music, it is solo; that's all me.

In my opinion, creative control means a lot, I feel like I'm really in touch with who my fans are and what they like about my music, and I'm able to communicate directly with them.

The music I make, I'm different.

You could call my piano my trademark, or one of my trademarks.

My voice makes the genre because I sound like me on all my songs - I've made my own genre: Jorja Smith.

I think that for every artist, it's very important to have an output and to feel very strongly about the music you're producing.

Coming up, a lot of people I looked up to had a signature sound, but I came up, and I was always in search of one, trying to find it, trying to create one. I was never really able to have a creative signature sound, you know?

I'm a very style-driven composer, and I like to give every project its own unique stamp.