Quotes About Evolution

I love reinventing my music and myself as well, and that's something my fans love about me.

Hip hop is the new rock n' roll, you know what I mean? And anybody who doesn't think that is just sort of living in the past. It's all just American music, really, when you get right down to it.

People are always defining and re-defining music. My style of playing has been characterized as smooth jazz and acid jazz. I listen as I play; I'm not caught up in defining the type of music I play.

I try to sing whatever the music makes me feel. And we play so much music from the other records at shows that I hope no one will miss the old style too much.

So, maybe you don't see blues so much in Styx's music but it is definitely part of Tommy's early music.

I was very adamant about not being called a jazz singer, but now I've embraced it. The way I approach music is through jazz, so I'm a jazz singer.

I think it's a reflection of the music business in general, which to me seems very fragmented.

When I hear bluegrass today, I hear so many new sounds in it. It's almost like country music in a way.

It's satisfying to put out new music. And I think that's the context in which I'm comfortable revisiting things from the past.

four geological eras had to pass so that human beings would be able to outsing the birds and die for love.

Pop is the most competitive form of music there is. You are always fighting to be adopted and accepted by the masses, and it's always shifting.

David Bowie's music is a moving target. Just when you think you got the bullseye, it shifts. And to his credit, on to death, it's still shifting. David Bowie is a moving target, even after he's gone.

Popular music has always been rooted in the blues, whether it's Adele or Led Zeppelin or Sam Cooke. It's just the beat that changes.

Music is my time capsule. Each album reflects what I'm going through or what's going on in my life at that moment.

You better start swimming, or you'll sink like a stone. Because the Time's they are a-changing.

All these kids who are growing up on Skrillex and all this digital music- what are they gonna think when they hear rock'n'roll?

I love working on new stuff. I love the feeling of a new idea and watching it evolve. That's one of my favorite parts of making music.

There's no doubt that the ready availability of music online has created a thousand more opportunities than it's destroyed.

The good thing is that there is a constant need for innovation, which is important in the evolution of music and sound.

I do not think that music keeps evolving. It evolved through Bach; since then, in my humble opinion, all the innovations added nothing.

I am pretty embroiled in moving on and moving forward with music.

Rap music's been around for too long now to be inspirational. The words are, but the music isn't.

You can't really imagine music without technology.

I'm not suggesting people abandon musical instruments and start playing their cars and apartments, but I do think the reign of music as a commodity made only by professionals might be winding down.