music genre quotes

My definition of country music is really pretty simple. It’s when someone sings about their life and what they know, from an authentic place.

People like bluegrass. It’s had a following amongst a lot of hip and young people. A lot of college kids like bluegrass.

If you’re going to write about rap music and hip-hop, and you don’t love it, then we don’t need your opinion, and we revoke your opinion.

Alternative R&B is in my soul. It’s not going anywhere.

For me, writing a song, I sit down and the process doesn’t really involve me thinking about the demographic of people I’m trying to hit or who I want to be able to relate to the song or what genre of music it falls under.

No, there’s something about the sing-song cadence of children’s music that has its place in rock.

Trap is new. It didn’t start yesterday, but when I was 5, it didn’t exist – not even in the U.S. I’ve evolved with the music.

I’m pretty sure in my older years, I’ll be doing old-time flavored folk-mountain music.

Reggaeton is something else – it is part of pop culture. It is something very big that I don’t believe will ever die.

My records are borderline dance records. They’ve got a real electro-rock heart and soul, and the vibe of the sentiment is pop, but there’s a lot of people that were like, ‚This is a dance record.‘

Actually, I hear a lot of rock music. My husband is a big rock fan.

Rock music is niche.

Reggaeton is a global genre.

Hip hop has always been braggin‘ and boasting and ‚I’m better at you than this‘ and ‚I’m better at you than that.‘

Folk music is a bunch of fat people.

The most important thing is that you honor that musical integrity, whether you make music that sounds like ABBA or you make music that sounds like Void.

I was looking for something a lot heavier, yet melodic at the same time. Something different from heavy metal, a different attitude.

Gospel music is never pessimistic, it’s never ‚oh my god, its all going down the tubes‘, like the blues often is.