Roy Haynes Quotes

Sometimes what works 40 years ago doesn't work today.

We're not good at propping up old carcasses. We want to be on top of what's vital at any particular time, and not just hold onto something because it has a name.

The world moves, and ideas that were once good are not always good.

Yesterday's answers has nothing to do with today's questions.

The one who adapts his policy to the times prospers, and likewise that the one whose policy clashes with the demands of the times does not.

We live in a world changing so rapidly that what we mean frequently by common sense is doing the thing that would have been right last year.

The strength of any plan depends on the time. Circumstances and things eternally shift and change.

Wisdom has lost repute because it so often applies to a state of affairs that no longer exists.

There are truths which are not for all men, nor for all times.

It is a changing world with changing opportunities.

The idea of 'advice,' in terms of telling people advice or asking people for advice, has become not comprehensible to me, to a certain degree, due to feeling, like, for something to be accurately defined as 'good' or 'bad,' I would want to know the context, goal, perspective for it.

It's the same as Keith Richards. People still ask him the same questions they asked him 30 years ago, even though he's a completely different person. And I'm a completely different person than I was 15 years ago.

One who uses an ancient rule to govern the present does not necessarily see the changes that have taken place.

With every new idea, it takes a generation or two until it becomes obvious that there's no real problem.

Change is the cliché of our time. It also happens to be the prevailing truth.

You can't always count on the devices, attitudes, and conceits that stood you in good stead in 1972 or 1973, or 1978-79, to still have the same impact all these years later.

If you don't change with the times, the times are going to change you.

We all know deep inside that no country is the same as it was 5 years ago.

I get asked all the time, What do you do differently than 10 years ago, or what will you do differently in the years to come?' In the years to come, I have no idea.

At times, we need to stop and rethink everything. Our entire history is made up of people who were sure they knew the truth yet forgot that the truth has an annoying tendency to change on occasion without us noticing it.

The times change, and if you don't change with them, you get left behind.

You have to live in your times.

Everything changes with time. I am not so experienced enough to analyze what the people love in me.

You need to dismount when your horse is dead. What was relevant 20 years ago is no longer relevant today. Therefore, you need to reinvent yourself.

Time will change and with it music will too. Our speed has changed, clothes have changed, food habits have changed, so why should music remain the same?