Du Yun Quotes

Music is constantly developing and changing.

There are people who will always want the genre, whatever it is, to stay traditional, to stay what it was like when you were 15 years old, but I just don't think music does that. Music is always changing and evolving, just like us as people.

I guess with any type of music or any art, there's always an evolution.

Every city is always changing, on its own trajectory.

I'm trying to change the culture in New York City; that's hard enough!

I'm a native of L.A. I've seen the city change and develop over time, and I still believe there's no place like home.

There is a terrible conservatism, like a cancer, right in the heartlands of music-making, a tremendous resistance to change, an absolute horror of the idea that more people might connect with music. That infuriates me more than I can say.

I think people just have to realize that music grows, and hip-hop evolves. I mean, everything evolves.

I feel like when you listen to music, it's almost like the same thing over and over, but of course as time goes on, rappers evolve, lyrical play evolves.

When I look at cities now, I don't see them in the present. This is the decaying infrastructure of our existing cities. Years from now, none of this is going to be here. New cities are going to rise.

I'm going to keep evolving and evolving and showing people that progression is key when it comes to music.

I'm just expanding my sound and making it bigger.

One thing I love about Lady Gaga is I feel like her sound is always evolving and changing with her and her phases of life.

Our music is becoming more mature.

Like all things, cities must change - even a city as enamoured of the past and memory as D.C.

I have a soft spot for 'Wind of Change' because it was my first one, and it was a departure from Humble Pie - very much so. It showed me the spectrum of what I could do.

If you look at the difference between the first Clash record and 'Combat Rock,' what an evolution.

Presenting the American songbook as a living, breathing entity that's expanding all the time is very important.

When you limit the word 'jazz' to one period of history, for the people who love that period, then maybe it can be dead because nobody plays like that anymore. But jazz is progressive music; it always has to progress, and musicians always have to find new landscapes and new ways to speak out, so of course it's always changing.

When I lived in Delhi, it was burdened with so many futures - fast roads, malls, flyovers - that one felt almost obliged to be hopeful. Now that hope has diminished, you can feel the city going into a frenzy to reinvent itself. I miss living there.

If you're not changing what you're doing and exploring different parts of your musical output, I think you're slowly dying.

I always want to keep moving musically and trying new things.

I never necessarily played the music I listen to. I've always liked a lot of soul, roots-reggae, alternative psych-rock, and I feel like, with age, that's kind of come.

I started out in rock, but I didn't want to stay there, and haven't.

I feel like it's a necessary part of musical development to go through that phase where you think that your favorite style of music is the only style of music, and I thought that for a while.