Quotes About Adaptation

The ability to play the clarinet is the ability to overcome the imperfections of the instrument. There's no such thing as a perfect clarinet, never was and never will be.

To keep creating you have to be about change.

Sometimes it is the artist's task to find out how much music you can still make with what you have left.

My mother always told me, even if a song has been done a thousand times, you can still bring something of your own to it. I'd like to think I did that.

If you hit a wrong note, then make it right by what you play afterward.

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

Imitate, assimilate, and innovate.

Nothing in music is hard, just unfamiliar.

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

I don't separate one era of jazz from another, because I listen to everybody... Everybody takes from everybody else and adds their own thing and goes on from there.

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

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

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.

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

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 make a lot of music for different people. My audience is varied so I use different tempos for different music in order to satisfy my many fans.

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.

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.

Change is inevitable in music - things change.

Never play anything the same way twice.

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

I look at music now as just something to keep you relevant.

One thing the music industry has taught me is to manage my expectations.