Quotes About Music

Music critics are part of the world, and I am part of the world.

The Eagles and the critics were not the best of friends.

I don't really care very much if I don't think that the critics really understand music.

Either you live by the barometer of the music critics, or you live by your own. I choose the latter.

I wanted to be one of these multidisciplinary critics who is doing music one day, TV the next, and books the next.

Critics always get the lyrics wrong in reviews, which is amusing - especially when they use them against you.

When I come home and have a new song I've written, she gives me an honest critique. If my wife likes it, I know I have something.

For our first album, we were our own dressers. We didn't have no stylists. We came up with all of the ideas when it came to dressing. At that time, Cross Colours and Jabos were really popular, so we were able to get stuff from them, but we always added accessories.

We wanted to write the kind of songs that can really cross any language barriers, any borders, and resonate with fans around the world.

I grew up going to rock shows, and the lines of rock n' roll cross over with wrestling so much.

No matter where you come from, if you sing in English, you can cross over to the world.

I keep my hip-hop as hip-hop, my R&B as R&B and my pop as pop. The ability to cross those boundaries and do all these things effectively is not commonly done.

People go, 'Oh, you're another guy who crossed over to country.' I say, name another one. Name one other pop singer who's done what I've done as a country singer. There isn't one.

I never made movies that had any of my music. I haven't crossed them over that much.

I'm crossing the EDM barrier.

Good rap records don't get too far, but rap records that are made for crossing over to white audiences do go a long way.

I think they want to keep it separate, but I've never been a crossover artist for some reason.

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

We were copying lots of bands, like Avett Brothers and Old Crow Medicine Show.

I love a lot of the '70s musicians, like Bonnie Raitt. And I love Sheryl Crow. But probably my favorite musician is a woman by the name of Schuyler Fisk.

Doing DJ sets is like - is difficult to me. Cause you have to find that happy medium of playing what the crowd wants and what you want.

The music comes alive when you actually perform it in front of a crowd.

You're playing for yourself. And if you're not playing for yourself, you're an entertainer, doing it for the crowd.

For whatever reason, it's easier to perform in front of a massive crowd than in front of a small one, but again, that's how we came up.