Quotes About Change

You know why I quit playing ballads? Cause I love playing ballads.

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.

We need not destroy the past. It is gone.

I think that the rhythm sections, drummers in particular, are the unsuing heroes of the music. It's the rhythm section that has changed the styles from one period to the other.

Where the Lord closes a door, somewhere He opens a window.

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

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

Music is one of the highest art forms there is. It can define a life, change a life, or even safe a life, in just three short minutes.

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.

I had to make a drastic change at Sun Records and I didn't really appreciate country music until I went there.

Once youve changed who you are or who youve portrayed in your music, the fans, theyll catch it... Once I feel like the world knows me for anything else but my music, then I feel like I failed.

I'd love to start some movements. What I'm tired of is irony, and sarcasm, and music/movies/what have you, not having the guts to mean anything.

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.

I'm passionately involved in life: I love its change, its color, its movement. To be alive, to be able to see, to walk, to have houses, music, paintings - it's all a miracle.

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.

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.

There's a lot of injustice in the world and it's what I sing about in my music and what I try to confront in my life as an activist.

Change is inevitable in music - things change.

You could name practically any problem in the hood and there'd be a rap song for you.

The conception of background music is changing. You use less and less of it these days.

Music is sunshine. Like sunshine, music is a powerful force that can instantly and almost chemically change your entire mood. Music gives us new energy and a stronger sense of purpose.

Pop music often tells you everything is OK, while rock music tells you that it's not OK, but you can change it.