Mike Gordon Quotes

Each time I've gone to the studio, the songs have got better and I've got more confident.

Our approach makes it so if you hear a said song of ours in 2003 and then you hear it again in 2009 it's probably evolved and changed a good bit, and hopefully for the better.

As my guitar playing dwindled, something else in my music got better.

Every time I make a new album, I get better and better.

Just trying to make my music as good as possible and to keep performing and just keep moving.

I have no doubt that the music I release next will be better.

It's only when an artist becomes a master that they are fully able to express themselves.

I was really learning my craft as a jazz singer and working with some great players and all, really growing and feeling my wings.

Touring helped me understand where I needed to be better in my music.

I'm not trying to clock scores in this lifetime, it's just that things are better now than they were like five, ten years ago. Music has gotten a lot better. There's a lot of people who are committed to - soulfully.

I want a long career in music, so you've gotta keep trying things out; it's gotta get progressively better.

As I'm growing, so is my music.

Every time I hear a recording I've made, I hear all kinds of things I could improve or things I should have done. There's always so much more to be done in music. It's so vast.

Mary J. Blige has made the most improvement, to me, and the depth of the spirit and the soul in her music, the way she sings, gives her that 'it' factor.

You never stop trying to make progress as a musician.

Whenever I've improved, gone up a level in sound-making, it's been because I've done an album.

Our music is becoming more mature.

You have to grow with the music.

I proved myself with 'Smoke Ring.' It was me maturing. I made a good pop record.

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

I think the music that I'm writing and the stuff I'm going to do as I age will age.

The first song that I wrote that I was proud of was probably 'Hunter' from the first record. But I listen that now and I don't know. I mean, it's got a good hook, but still. I'm proud of it. I'm as proud as I can be of all the ideas, but I think 'Party' showed a maturity that I don't think I had on 'Aldous Harding.'

That's the most important thing for me is just figuring out how and if I'm growing as an artist.

I feel like I'm always just trying to write better music and keep topping myself.

I'm always concerned about growing as an artist.