Miguel Quotes

I don't want to limit myself musically. It would be really limiting if we'd neglect something we really want to do, like explore other styles of music.

In Atlanta, there's no limitation to where you can take your music. You can be as creative as you want to be.

I think the people who are saying jazz has to sound a particular way, or, 'What you're doing isn't jazz,' are just scared because they can't do it. A lot of them just aren't talented enough to do anything new, honestly.

Music is music; you don't have to put a label on it.

A good story gives you more of a license to be forward and progressive with the music.

I definitely try to broaden the scope of music. I don't know if it's pop or classical or what, but I'm religiously challenging myself all the time, for better or for worse.

I think music is so diverse today, and bands are so diverse. If you were a rock band in the Eighties, you kind of had to stick to one thing. Now, in this age of Coachella and European festivals and stuff, it's kind of anything goes, so that allowed us to try different things.

I had spent many years pursuing excellence, because that is what classical music is all about... Now it was dedicated to freedom, and that was far more important.

Just the type of music that was around at the same time as I was writing. Some of it was wicked, definitely. But there was just one direction which I thought could be pushed that no one was pushing.

When it comes to music, we should be hoping for as outlandish a Republican candidate as we can get.

I'm suspicious of the idea of categories in music and this idea of things being in boxes. To me, that seems unnatural. I write the music that somebody with my biography would write, and the thing that's always driven me is an enthusiasm for the material. I sort of follow the notes to where they want to go.

Sound-wise, I'm really limitless in the way I write songs. Whatever comes out, comes out. Every song is completely different.

Who's to say a blues man can't play rock and roll?

You have got to stress the freedom of music to really branch out and be universal.

Country is and always will be my heart, but I don't have a problem with it spilling over into pop if it wants to.

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 am optimistic about the future of music.

I just know that I'm a fan of all different kinds of genres. You're supposed to be free doing music, and that's how I feel.

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've seen and learned enough to keep my music fresh and spread out.

It's funny; people get so doctrinaire about music. It should be the last thing you don't have an open mind about.

To break R&B into subcategories does a disservice to the music. I like to live in a zone where I can do whatever I want, where I don't have to worry about genre.

The reflection of the world is blues, that's where that part of the music is at. Then you got this other kind of music that's tryin' to come around.

There's more musical freedom on Madison Avenue than anywhere else. It's an Eden for a composer.

They believed you can't mix rock, country, and rap, and that crossover is dead. I always knew it would work. And it will always work as long as you're really into it and like what you're doing.