Quotes About Progress

The wireless music box has no imaginable commercial value. Who would pay for a message sent to nobody in particular?

... don't be afraid to screw up !... one of the key issues to learning is making mistakes ... if you're not making mistakes, you're probably not having a very good time

If Apple's a technology company in the music industry, why can't somebody in the music industry make technology?

Change is inevitable in music - things change.

I always felt like there was a certain standard of music that I had to do from the beginning, even when I didn't have the recognition that I have now.

I just change with the times. I really don't have a say in what's going on. Music was here before me.

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.

The older ideas are rendering more and more bland music.

I simply want to reach a level where I will never cease to make progress...so that, even on the bad evenings, I may never be bad enough to despair.

All the big artists I talk to say that they are trapped in a formula and they are looking for the music of tomorrow.

Every great inspiration is but an experiment.

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.

Rock music was never written for or performed for conservative tastes.

Some people just don't want to see change, but thankfully there are a lot of people more optimistic for something new in music, even with the bigger picture like with Barack Obama getting elected.

[On being asked how it felt to be the first female conductor of the Boston Symphony:] I've been a woman for a little more than fifty years, and I've gotten over my original astonishment.

I didn't know how well my first album had done; it was enough to get me to do the second album, which was a continuation of the music I'd worked on and perfected.

Once I accomplish one thing and I'm satisfied, I try something else. I may be 50 and doing something totally outside of music and acting. Maybe I'll become a kindergarten teacher.

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

The further the music develops, the more complex the apparatus used by the composer to express his thoughts becomes.

I'm not an anti-online person. I get what the modern world's about and I understand that that's the nature of music dissemination.

I've seen country music go uptown, like we say, and I'm proud I was there when it happened.

Into the Music was about the first album where I felt, 'I'm starting here'...the Wavelength thing, I didn't really feel that was me.

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

Because I've been making music and releasing it for so long, I've got that production-line thing in my brain: I can't do anything new until the last one's out.