Lee Ranaldo Quotes

I love that I can play around with all types of music.

Creating any type of art is all about mood. I've been making extreme music in one fashion or another for decades. And truthfully, Down has a big enough fan base to where I could remain content to do only that, but music is a vast territory and I am an explorer. And I'm a lover of all things considered extreme in music.

Musically, I try not to box things in. I try to just play around this spectrum of influences: soul, jazz, and hip-hop.

I like pop music, and I like really weird, strange stuff. It just didn't feel like there was anyone doing both.

Music is there for us to explore. To intentionally limit yourself to one, two, or three genres is limitation at its worst. Music is huge; it's a gigantic history lesson, and if you are true music fan or a musician, you should explore it. It's all right there in front of us.

I can make any type of music, so I wouldn't want to describe myself as having one type of sound. I think music is about keeping it diverse.

I love mixing up my genres.

I'm quite an eclectic musician.

I love music. I love every kind of extreme sort of music, and many different genres, and if I were to have to dedicate myself to just one kind of genre, I would feel kind of gypped. I'd be like, man, I wish I could do this or that. And really all it takes is trying it out.

I found the blues too limiting, and classical was too disciplined.

I guess I always think the people that know me or fans that have followed me and know my solo work would know that I've always had really eclectic tastes - even in Motley, dude.

I always play so many different styles that I don't think anything I do surprises anyone.

Musically, my palette is eclectic.

I want to explore all genres.

I like making all kinds of music, it really depends on the moment. Sometimes I feel like making a weird trap song, and sometimes I can't even attach a track to a genre.

I try to not go, 'I'm writing a pop song.' Music is inherently genre-bending.

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.

We listen to so many different types of music, so it's easy for us to play a different genre or style and it be true to what we do.

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.

That's the kind of musical freedom I like: jazz, rock, blues, anything. You adopt different attitudes when you play different music.

I've done the country, done the pop-rock, done the super-hard electro.

I've been called 'musically schizophrenic,' and some people think that's a cool thing.

A lot of music doesn't do one thing or another. It just doesn't do anything. Then there are those pieces of music that thrill your soul. It's such a wide range, and it's really interesting that we all love different things.

The greatest thing about music is everyone has their own style, and I respect all styles of music.

In the past, I tried to be more of a typical session guitarist. I wasn't so concerned with impressing anybody.