Oliver Sykes Quotes

I like songs in all different genres and types. My production and songwriting is everything from pop rock to hip-hop and everything in between.

I have the most eclectic music taste out there. I can be listening to an indie pop song just as easily as I could be listening to a Carly Simon song from the '70s to a country song.

You should listen to a lot of different music.

I try to listen to over a hundred different songs a day. I listen to every single thing. If you're just listening to pop music, you're just gonna make pop music. I listen to Adele, Yo Yo Ma, Gucci Mane.

There's not a single genre that is hard to find or hard to get.

I love the sounds of Latin jazz, R&B, hip-hop, alternative, all that stuff. I'm a radio kid.

With Australian audiences, there's a certain level of education - as far as how much access and exposure they have to music from various genres. So when you do 'Big Day Out' and there are all these different musical acts, you see the same people in your crowd that were there for a completely different artist.

I think the industry is oblivious to the fact that most people listen to all kinds of stuff. I personally don't know of anyone who listens to only one genre of music. It's vanity because no one does.

I like all kinds of music - classical, pop, rock, electronic.

I'm literally into any type of music imaginable.

I've become kind of a haven for people who like pop music, but that's not the only thing they like. They also like music in general and want to be able to expand their own horizons. They haven't completely given up on music and are willing to have somebody mediate new things that are happening in music to them.

I listen to all kinds of music - new music, old music, music of my colleagues, everything.

I think there are a lot of artists that are very traditional. I think someone can be a fan of someone like Josh Turner and then turn around and be a big fan of someone like Taylor Swift because, at the end of the day, it's all about those songs. I feel like country music has the best songwriting and the best songs of any genre.

To me, if you're a musician, then you're interested in music, and if you're interested in music, then you should listen to a lot of different types.

Obviously I got known for some other songs early on, and some of those were rock'n'roll songs. Some of them were melodic pop songs. And I've done lots of different things, as you know, but every so often I get drawn back.

I've been lucky to listen to lots of different types of music.

My parents were big music fans, and my dad plays music, so I grew up with Madonna, Frank Zappa, the Beatles, Alice In Chains... it was all over the place. I had a Third Eye Blind record, but I also had Korn, Courtney Love, and Shania Twain.

There are kids out there that are into Iron Maiden and others who are strictly into industrial music, but they come for the same reason; they all like us and they different things out of the band's music.

I mean, Tool has a style, but we try to make all our songs sound different from each other.

Part of the joy of music is listening to lots of different kinds of music and learning from it. Specifically for me, I like writing songs that move me, and what moves me are beautiful songs on the piano or the guitar and really, really heavy music.

I love pop music. I love drum and bass, Calvin Harris, all these electronic things, but it's nice to have something organic as well.

I listen to all kinds of music. The Calling, Blink 182, Bruce Springsteen, I mean, it's everything.

Entertainment isn't just based on the very structured syndrome of European popular music, and it's great that there are so many thousands of people who are of the same opinion.

You can enjoy many different types of music. I think that's something more Americans should think about.

We always thought we had to follow a certain theme but I don't agree with that anymore. I think the fans deserve a wider variety of music.