Quotes About Evolution

Any good music must be an innovation.

The death of classical music is perhaps its oldest continuing tradition.

I don't separate one era of jazz from another, because I listen to everybody... Everybody takes from everybody else and adds their own thing and goes on from there.

I had no idea of the historical evolution of the civilized world's music and had not realized that all modern music owes everything to Bach.

After two takes you're imitating yourself.

Hip-hop is definitely not what it used to be, which was creative, original music.

Music changes, and I'm gonna change right along with it.

I never thought Jazz was meant to be a museum piece like other dead things once considered artistic.

Jazz, I mean, music will always move, because it can't become stagnant. Because if it becomes stagnant, it's like a river, it'll kill us all. It has to keep moving, music will always flow.

I wouldn't say rock & roll is dead but the current music made by young people isn't really rock & roll.

We need not destroy the past. It is gone.

Charisma, that's my strong point. My personality was always good, but with music I had to grow into it. I grew into who I am now.

Music mirrors where we should go, have gone and can go. Music is an abstraction.

I've matured as a person and so has the music... It's gotten more sophisticated and interesting I think.

Dance music is like a virus, it has affected so many different genres.

The way you change and help music is by tryin' to invent new ways to play

I'm totally not a nostalgic person. I always look to the future and as much as I've enjoyed the ride until now and the different phases, I'm more excited about the next music.

There was always a lot of American music in England until, obviously when the Beatles came around, then there was a shift towards English music, but before then American music was the main thing...

New music? Hell, there's been no new music since Stravinsky.

I'm not old school, like, "Aw, man, I gotta do my music like I did in '98." I just go with the flow. I don't try to change anything.

The narrow gauge mindset of the past is insufficient for today's wicked problems. We can no longer play the music as written. Instead, we have to invent a whole new scale.

Music in general is looking for something new overall.

Videos destroyed the vitality of rock and roll. Before that, music said, "Listen to me." Now it says, "Look at me."

I just had to find all my friends that used to be in the business. As I say, the music business didn't die, it just moved to Nashville.