Quotes About Change

It's the opportunity to play something completely different, responding to what happened just before you started to play, and I love that.

There is no real coming and going, For what is going but coming?

I've done a lot of growing up since the age of 16 and I really wanted that to be reflected in my music

My music, my whole approach to the synthesizer has completely changed now.

It feels amazing and beautiful that music can have such an importance on the way that people form social groups. Music can change people. People can change the world.

I'm not trying to keep up or adapt. I'm allowing myself to grow, evolve and create new music.

Madonna is interesting. She changed music. She definitely did. She gave me an opportunity that no one else would give me, so I am very grateful to her.

Whenever there's a change with Jazz & its aesthetics, it's almost always reflected with a change in the culture.

Never say never - you don't know what's going to happen in the future.

The dream is over. I gotta get down to reality. The good old days is garbage.

I think that if everybody changed and tried to make their music political, it'd be kind of a bummer.

I'm a chameleon. I can change my voice a lot. I always was able to, because in my family's music I was a harmony singer, and harmony singing is really hard.

Punk was originally about creating new, important, energetic music that would hopefully threaten the status quo and the stupidity of the 1970s.

I sort of fell out of new music. I'm old, I like what I like, and that's that.

Musically, I think I change music like I change clothes! What I listen to on a day to day basis is really contingent upon my mood and what's going on in my life.

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

Music moves society more than most people realize. In my opinion, it's a soft manipulator of influence and change.

Radio and TV can still push a band, but things need to be shaken up. There is the Internet, but mostly what I see there is little kids on YouTube playing music.

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.

Revolution in America begins in books and music, then waits for political operatives to 'implement changes after the fact.'

If we're not actively making things better, chances are we're making them worse.

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

I think Kurt Cobain and Nirvana represent this giant wave that came crashing in and turned music on its head again, and there's definitely something to be said for that.

It's wonderful to look back and think you were part of a force that shaped modern music and influenced the public in so many ways. However, that's all in the past.