Mixmaster Morris Quotes

Mixmaster Morris shares reflective thoughts on music, growing up and looking at history with a broader view.

39 quotes

1. Here's three samples, now go and make a record.

2. I Think, Therefore I Ambient

3. Live the Dream, Dream the Fish

4. It's time to lie down and be counted.

5. We've had 70 years of making records. Now, we sample them.

6. I'd rather lie down than jump up.

7. The dance industry is flogging a dead house.

8. Music is for sharing with people.

9. If you're going to make music, you need to find the context in which it might be enjoyed.

10. Punk was predicated on non-musicianship.

11. Whatever you like at age 16, you will find boring at age 32.

12. It is time to reassess what has happened in the 20th century, and to look at it with a longer lens.

13. I like the people who go the extra mile to find something more individual, with more integrity, than the stuff you get in the charts.

14. Being on the stage is the one place I don't get nervous. Before the show is another story, but once I'm up there, and the first chord hits, I go to this other place. It's like a dream land.

15. There are so many fun things that you live that you can write about and people of all ages can connect to.

16. The songwriting community in Nashville really is all about your talent. It's not about your image, and you have to be humble. You have to be kind. You have to have zero ego when you walk into that writing room.

17. There are so many times I turn on the radio, and I hear a guy, and I have no idea who it is because it sounds like four other people.

18. That's the whole point is just to bring people together in a really positive way and laugh together and cry together and just be connected through a simple thing of a few chords.

19. I'll just drive around if I'm stuck on something or have a case of writer's block.

20. I would love to see Regina Spektor, Bjork, and some really cool-sounding festival bands like 'Metric' and 'The Cardigans,' who are one of my favorite bands.

21. I think about all of the freaking talent shows I've tried out for in my life, and I'm so glad I didn't make any of them.

22. Being the everyman in the writing room helps a lot: you have to be a real collaborator and selfless, and not have ego when you walk in there. That's the antithesis of the artist mentality.

23. Definitely scatterbrained. I internalize a lot of thoughts, and sometimes it seems like I'm not listening or totally zoned out, but I'm always on a loop of ideas and song titles. I'm definitely kind of a space cadet, but I'm very laid back.

24. Performing with Thomas Rhett our song 'Craving You,' I'm so excited for the fans to see it and sort of see our worlds come together because I feel like he's sort of a genre pusher and boundary pusher, and I feel the same way about my music.

25. I'm a huge country fan and am always inspired by classic country.

26. I've never been this loud personality. I don't dominate the room when I walk into it. I save that for stage.

27. My songs have some street talk in them, but that's the way I talk and the way a lot of people I know talk.

28. I'm young, but I've been doing this a long time... There's obviously a lot of hard work that goes into it. It's a hard town. There's a lot of talent here. It's all about timing, too. I just feel like I finally found the right town and the right song.

29. I feel like, genre-wise, the walls are coming down in Nashville. There are so many writers who have moved to town from all walks of life. There's this immense respect for country, but there are pop songwriters, R&B. Nashville has become sort of this go-to writing city for every genre.

30. Right before I go out, we usually put on some Lauryn Hill or Fugees, and I'll do a shot of tequila just to calm my nerves.

31. A really big thing I've learned - and I think it's so liberating - is when you realize no one knows what they're doing.

32. I don't know if there's something in the water in Texas, but there's a lot of us really ballsy women that have something to say.

33. This never happens, but I was writing with my friend Ryan Hurd and Eric Arjes, and we wrote this song called 'Last Turn Home.' The next day, my publisher emailed it to Tim McGraw's label. He listened to it, and I think within the week, he went into the studio and recorded it. And that never happens.

34. As a songwriter, I feel like, just for inspiration and research purposes, I have to listen to everything.

35. My lyrics are more country - what I love is the storytelling and the structure, how tight the rhymes can be. But pop melodies have always been intrinsically linked to my writing style.

36. I hope there is a place for me in the country landscape, but I'm not too precious about it, either.

37. When I look at most lineups, especially in country, women are definitely lacking in numbers.

38. It definitely is an ice breaker going into the awards already having one, and it was just so crazy when I heard I did win because I was in London at the time, and we were doing a festival out there, and my manager was like, 'You just won an ACM.' And I was like, 'How? It's so early!'

39. It's funny to think that at 22 years old, I was really burned out from being on the road for 10 years.