Quotes About Progress

As long as you've got your horn in your mouth, you're developing.

Computers and electronic music are not the opposite of the warm human music. It's exactly the same.

Any good music must be an innovation.

When one door is closed, don't you know, another is open.

You can read all the textbooks and listen to all the records, but you have to play with musicians that are better than you.

Music and improving the world are two sides of the same coin.

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

I never thought Jazz was meant to be a museum piece like other dead things once considered artistic.

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.

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

Always look ahead, but never look back.

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

I'm building an empire. How do you know I won't be the next [Universal Music Group Chairman/CEO] Doug Morris one day? I'm doing a hell of a job, and I'm on the road to that next level.

Through my music teaching and my not absolutely irregular attendance at church, I became acquainted with the best class of colored people in Jacksonville.

I'm just trying to make the best music I can possibly make and represent the new class or whatever. Myself and Cudi and Asher and B.o.B. That's all I can do at this point.

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

We have always created - music, literature, art, dance. The art around us - or lack of it - may be a measure of how we're doing as individuals and as a civilization, so maybe we should be worried.

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.

Talent is only the starting point.

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.

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.