Quotes About Adaptation

You know, my music utilizes things from the past, because that's what the past is for. It's to learn from. It's not to limit you, you shouldn't be limited by it.

Look, you come in here tomorrow, and anything you do with your right hand I'll do with my left.

Every time you go in, it's like starting over. You don't know how you did the other records. You're learning all over. It's some weird musician amnesia, or maybe the road wipes it out.

Playing music is not really susceptible to theory much. Circumstances affect it so much.

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

Opera in English is, in the main, just about as sensible as baseball in Italian.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

I played Big Band jazz music. I wasn't into rock and roll. I was just there because it was a living. I surprised everyone. I'm still surprising people.

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

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

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

I try to sing whatever the music makes me feel. And we play so much music from the other records at shows that I hope no one will miss the old style too much.

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.

We were playing popular music, but we were doing our own arrangements because we were too lazy to sit down and figure out the originals

The greatest DJ is one who can live within the formula and make it sound .... as if he producing and pulling the music all by himself.

I'm not a great inventor from scratch. What I do is to use, steal, acquire, reproduce or re-cycle music from other musicians.

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

I really enjoy making different types of music than I do with the Backstreet Boys.