Music Progress Quotes

We have this really retro vibe and style of songwriting and, personally, I wasn't embracing the current state of music until I fell in love with hip-hop. It felt good to suddenly embrace where music was headed, and I think hip-hop is the best at that, because it feels so progressive and everybody wants to be the best.

The music teacher came twice a week to bridge the awful gap between Dorothy and Chopin.

It's silly to me to not be positive about rock advancing and growing. Really, we just want rock n' roll to be mainstream.

I don't know whether schooling would have helped me get farther along in music at this time. I doubt it would have.

Anyone that thinks 'pop' is a dirty word is living in the '90s.

We're not going to change the world or the music business.

Like any self-governing group of people, the Recording Academy has made missteps over the years. Still, it has corrected course and done more to open its arms to the future than nearly any other industry group around.

I don't want music to be a museum.

A lot of my peers, be seniors or juniors, they'll text me or they'll call me and they'll say, 'Thank you for doing the music that you do because it pushes the genre forward in different ways.' It's a very rewarding thing to hear.

There are seven songs finished and on par with any that are on Siren's.

When people make the educated argument that things should go back, it's more like going back to a feeling they had when they heard some of the music that came out. Not going back to that music being rehashed. That's stupid.

I try to be a good representative for country music. But as a country artist, it's important to move the needle and make a difference beyond your core audience. But you can't ever strategically try to accomplish that; then things get weird.