Quotes About Progress

People who say that music is dead or hip-hop is dead are refusing to evolve.

In music, as I find myself forever saying, things don't get better or worse: they evolve and transform themselves.

Maybe one day there will finally be an education for electronic music.

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.

I always want to be growing in my craft. Any artist should - whether you paint, whether you do music or film - always grow and study.

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

It's satisfying to put out new music. And I think that's the context in which I'm comfortable revisiting things from the past.

four geological eras had to pass so that human beings would be able to outsing the birds and die for love.

From politics and business to music and food to culture, African-Americans have helped to shape our state's colourful past and its future.

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.

The good thing is that there is a constant need for innovation, which is important in the evolution of music and sound.

I do not think that music keeps evolving. It evolved through Bach; since then, in my humble opinion, all the innovations added nothing.

I am pretty embroiled in moving on and moving forward with music.

You can't really imagine music without technology.

Music is going to go in some direction that is entirely inconceivable now. If someone had been asked twenty years ago what direction they thought music was going in, they wouldn't have said sampling.

Electronic music is so weird because trends change so fast.

I turn on the radio now and I don't have anything against a lot of sequenced and programmed and electronic music, a lot of it is dope and it's the future. It's what popular music has evolved to.

Humans are allergic to change. They love to say, 'We've always done it this way.' I try to fight that. That's why I have a clock on my wall that runs counter-clockwise.

The future is in the hands of those who explore... and from all the beauty they discover while crossing perpetually receding frontiers, they develop for nature and for humankind an infinite love.

Arise, transcend Thyself, Thou art man and the whole nature of man Is to become more than himself.

The desire that guides me in all I do is the desire to harness the forces of nature to the service of mankind.