Quotes About Change

Reggeton has changed very much, musically. It has evolved. The artists have also evolved.

I'm a chameleon. When you put me in certain soils, musically speaking, I will be in that place.

What I wanted to do is put forth, musically, the idea that there's hope that we can change the system.

Motley never once sat down and said, 'Well, the music scene's changing. We need to make this record a little darker or heavier musically or lyrically.' It was just four guys sitting in a room like a bunch of 16-year-olds in a garage and jamming on riffs.

I know they call it the British Invasion, but musically, I call it the British Infusion.

What musicals need is a new me.

That's what I think musicals will come to. No backstage stories, nothing of that sort.

Musicals are famous for being in a constant state of flux.

When you make new musicals, you have the great freedom and the great burden that it can be changed.

I'd always done musicals, and so living in the world of straight plays and working with off-Broadway actors and living in that community was a completely life-changing experience.

I absolutely love working on musicals, but anytime I finish a project, I want to move on to something completely different.

Fatherhood changed me as a musician.

In a lot of groups, you can change a musician, and it doesn't mean anything.

I'm constantly evolving as a musician.

Musicians tend to get bored playing the same thing over and over, so I think it's natural to experiment.

In 1972, I got my first electric bass and started playing the kind of instrument I play now. I found that the majority of musicians couldn't bear that. They are not used to listening to the bass because they think the bass is in the background to support them.

One of the best things about Kickstarter and crowdfunding and the collapse of the music business is a lot of artists like me have been forced to face our own weird mess about ourselves and what we thought it meant to become musicians.

I think what made John Lennon so exciting as an artist is that, like Dylan and other musicians with a truly important musical legacy, he had several faces, personas that changed over time as he developed.

When Mohamed Morsi was elected president of Egypt in 2012, many in the country, including me, were hopeful that he would become a democratic president for all Egyptians - not only for the Muslim Brotherhood.

We want to be, I think, an example for the rest of the Arab world, because there are a lot of people who say that the only democracy you can have in the Middle East is the Muslim Brotherhood.

The king must die so that the country can live.

If the shoe doesn't fit, must we change the foot?

Democracy must learn to defend itself.

I had a mustache when I was 13.