Original Sound Quotes

Well, obviously I wanted it to sound as original as possible. I suppose the influences that we had were probably from the actual power point of view we wanted to be like the Who. Vocally we wanted to be like the Beach Boys, whatever was good at the time.

This music isn't Top 40, we really stand out from anyone.

If you try to sound like somebody else, it will never work because we already have that person. You are noticed when you try to be an original sound.

We decided to start our own group because we were bored with everything we heard... Everything was 10th-generation Led Zeppelin... Overproduced, or just junk. We missed music like it used to be.

The thing about doing mashups and covers is it's great, but a part of you never gets to really showcase what your original sound is like or what your writing voice is like.

You can have a favorite band, but when they sign with a major label... maybe a new producer says, 'You can't do that, take this down a notch.' And you'll keep listening, but you'll always think their first album was their best album.

Folk music is the original melody of man; it is the musical mirror of the world.

I think the fans really wanna hear the songs the way they sound on the record.

I think the music I've created is quite odd, and people are going to start talking about that.

There's just something really, really timeless about live instruments. There's just something special about them that you can't really duplicate or grasp without including live instruments.

There's no point that an album should sound like a watered down version of another album.

Generally, you are held to a sound and that becomes your sound. That gets branded as your sound, and all the copycats start with it because the labels are looking for that sound.

On the musical side, I always wanted to kind of carry on Pink Floyd's sound. You know, Pink Floyd always had such an original, creative and masterful sound, but there are no new albums. My thought was that there's a way to keep their sound alive.

Everybody's just emulated us and now everybody just kinda takes our sound as their foundations.

Yeah, I've always wondered what it would be like to make music that's not nostalgic at all, and it's really, really hard for me to imagine.

In Jamaica, them always have throwback riddims, recycled old beats, and the hardcore reggae scene is always present. You have faster stuff like the more commercialized stuff, but you always have that segment of music that is always from the core, from the original root of it.

I want to bring real music back but make it marketable and mainstream. To me, real music isn't everything being synthesized, computerized.

The first album is a classic record and I think the prototype of a sound that no one else does.

When I listen back to my music and everyone else that's out there, I'm aware that there's something I can do that the next guy doesn't do.

I'm just trying to avoid any sort of generic kind of music - I don't want to do generic jazz or fusion.

I pride myself on having a really authentic music sound: no gimmicks, just my vocals.

Fans want real songs, they want real experiences, and they want real instruments.

I'm still trying to keep it original, staying true to my sound.

I knew that collaborating on songwriting would be difficult for a lot of people, because I was known very much, for my independence and the fact that I wrote these quirky songs that were not typical structure, not typical sound - you know, really original stuff.

There are a handful of Soundgarden songs that work acoustically, but only a couple. It's not who we were.