Andrew Mayer Cohen Quotes
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Even when I was a hip-hop DJ I always kept it classy. The motto is always 'flashy but classy.' You've got to be original and stand out from the crowd and take some chances. But you've always got to keep it classy.
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A lot of people think I live in a soul bubble.
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I love doing things that people don't expect.
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Drums, bass, guitar, keys, I play a little of each of those.
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I don't think I've ever had more fun doing anything in my life than trading verses with Daryl Hall on 'Private Eyes.' That's as fun as it gets.
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I didn't appreciate Mick Jagger until I got older, and mainly because of the Mick Jagger swagger. He defined that for the world. He was bold and adventurous with it, too - just the ultimate rock star.
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Nowhere on earth has more soul than Detroit.
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I try to make sure that I make music that can stand the test of time.
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I've always been the DJ or the bass player or the drummer, somebody in the background. I don't think anybody who knows me personally would say that I'm particularly shy or introverted, but I'm definitely not like Mr. Attention.
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I think that Detroiters are some of the most resilient people in the world.
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I just want to have fun and party with everyone around the world. That's the only rule, to have fun.
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I learn the most from trial and error. I learn about what I'd like to be able to do from people like Barbara Mason. Saying I want to sing like Barbara Mason and doing it, it's two very different scenarios.
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A big part of the Motown formula was, they took music and turned it into this sort of automotive assembly line. They were cranking out 10 songs a day in that studio, or more.
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With any cover, I like to choose songs that affected me strongly already. So it's tough sometimes to take a song that you love so much and put your own spin on it because you get such a strong feeling from the original.
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My dad calls me 'Mac' a lot, from 'Mike Tyson's Punch Out' - Little Mac is the main character. I was obsessed. I can still beat Mike Tyson on 'Punch Out.'
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My intentions with any of my music is to keep it futuristic and updated and be experimental and try new things.
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People will send me tweets or texts, 'Yo, I'm at Red Lobster now and they're playing Mayer Hawthorne,' more of that kind of stuff, which is hilarious.
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When you're a soul singer, I'm singing a lot of songs about love and relationships that I think a lot of girls really relate to. For whatever reason, that seems to get 'em excited. The DJ, everyone always says the DJ gets all the chicks, but that's never been my experience.
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My singing really seemed to connect with people, and it ended up as my main career, which I love.
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I've always made sure that I tour with bands that people aren't expecting me to tour with.
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I shopped at J. Crew in high school, I studied computer science. I was a nerd-nerd, now I'm a music-nerd.
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It's important that when kids are listening to my music they don't think of it as their parent's music.
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I don't want kids listening to my music thinking it's for their parents. I want them to feel it's theirs.
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I've been DJing since before I could read the labels on the records.