Quotes About Change

Remember when you used to watch TV in the Sixties and you'd see Perry Como in a cashmere sweater? That's what rock 'n' roll is becoming. It's your parents' music.

You can't change the music of your soul.

I'd rather be a comma than a full stop.

I am no longer afraid of becoming lost, because the journey back always reveals something new, and that is ultimately good for the artist.

There aren't that many things left that haven't already been done, especially with music. I'm interested in ideas that can shake us all up.

Music is so important. It changes thinking, it influences everybody, whether they know it or not. Music knows no boundary lines.

Once upon a time I was falling in love, now I'm only falling apart.

I got caught up on drugs for a few years, I'm off it, I'm very happy, got two kids and a family and everything. And like I said I'm making the underground music, and keeping it real.

The imminent demise of the large record companies as gatekeepers of the world's popular music is a good thing, for the most part.

Electronic music right now is in its comfort zone, and it's not moving one inch.

The music industry has been hijacked by corporate interests, but the way music affects people and resonates with them hasn't changed.

My lifelong friend and mentor Frank Barsalona is gone. And the music business as we knew it went with him.

I'll probably be 80 years old and still performing. Music is like fashion, it changes. But some things will always be the same.

Any good music must be an innovation.

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

When one door is closed, don't you know, another is open.

Music and improving the world are two sides of the same coin.

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

Music is music; you can't change rock and say well this is punk rock and this is acid rock or rockabilly.

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

My music is made for the people who are willing to stand up to change this world themselves.

I don't know if music can change the world overnight but I know that music can help someone make it through a difficult night.

Songs are funny things. They can slip across borders. Proliferate in prisons. Penetrate hard shells. I always believed that the right song at the right moment could change history.

Music has given a voice to many generations, and I think we, as artists, can be a part of creating a better world.