Quotes About Change

My whole thing is just to put out positive messages in the music, give people something that can change their lives.

Why not invest in the future of music, instead of building fortresses to preserve its past?

I think It's a bit of a disappointment that a lot of people's Golden Age of music is still the '60s.

We've been working on a new album, which is going to come out next spring, which is very different, a change of style for us - it's going to be almost like rock music.

Apparently, there's this whole set of disgruntled people but obviously it's not my intention to offend anyone by changing the style of music that I've done.

I've always considered music stores to be the graveyards of musicians.

I hate it when bands change between records. They're thinking before they make music.

Light threatens, is active, is gone, so it is with a song.

A 'mistake' is beside the point, for once anything happens it authentically is.

People who say that music is dead or hip-hop is dead are refusing to evolve.

When I started working on electronic music, that was after the rave period. I haven't even seen that part of it that much.

I try to use my music to move these people to act.

That I can't relate to today's music or morals doesn't make either necessarily bad. Just different. I leave the judgements to others.

I think a lot of people came into rock n' roll to try to change the world. I came into rock n' roll to make music.

When we moved back to the US, folk music was all the rage. So I traded in my banjo for a guitar.

The music business used to carry a certain amount of brotherly love, but it isn't that way now.

Remember the Bob Dylan rule: it's not just a record, it's a movement.

Music can't change the world.

Musical innovation is full of danger to the State, for when modes of music change, the laws of the State always change with them.

Maybe in music you're making an auditory environment and maybe you change your environment around you to suit your own way.

In music, as I find myself forever saying, things don't get better or worse: they evolve and transform themselves.

My hope is that out of all the anger and seeming hostility that we hear in some of today's music will come some sort of coalition that will become politically involved.

I do think that music has a special ability to get behind enemy lines and win hearts and minds.

Rap is always evolving. It's easy for the old school to hate the new school, but it's a music that got a little stifled I think, by the Internet a little bit.