Nick Cave Quotes

It's either you finna create your own wave, you finna sound like me or you finna sound like G Herbo, you finna sound like Chance The Rapper, you finna sound like Juice Wrld. You ain't gonna get too far 'cause you sound like somebody. So, create your own lane and do your own style.

I don't want to sound like Ross; I don't want to sound like Puff. I want to make my own music: French Montana.

I am not really certain how original my contribution to music is as I am obviously an amateur.

In the past, I tried to be more of a typical session guitarist. I wasn't so concerned with impressing anybody.

I study what's happening in music. I want to sound different than everybody else.

A lot of times, people just want to be more extreme than the next band or the next person, and that's all they focus on. That's kind of lost on me.

You might lose your spontaneity and, instead of composing first-rate Gershwin, end up with second rate Ravel.

I don't try to make the guitar sound like the harpsichord or lute. That makes you end up being like a bad copy.

I'm dead serious about my craft and just really serious about making music in itself. I take pride in making songs and albums where no two songs sound alike. That's the challenge and that's what it's all about, to keep it original and fresh and funky.

Aaron Copland was a man that had a very specific point of view about what music should be which was that, he felt that new music should have the composer should show a personality in his music.

I play the way I do because it allows me to come up with the sickest sounds possible. That's the point now isn't it?

In the beginning, I wrote OK songs, but they didn't have a unique perspective.

What is nice about country music today is that most artists are not trying to do something everybody else is doing. They really are trying to develop their own uniqueness.

Everyone can write their melodies and chords and pianos and guitars, but what hasn't been discovered yet are tones and textures, and that's very exciting. Probably the No. 1 most important thing in my music is not to sound like anyone else.

When you say, 'Man, what kind of music does Outkast make?' You be like, 'They make Outkast music.' What kind of music does N.E.R.D. make? They make N.E.R.D. music. I want to be one of those people, because there's so many layers to the music I create that I don't want people to expect me to do one thing.

One of our biggest pet peeves is listening to bands that use harmony guitars for the sake of it. If you can't figure out how do something different than Maiden, UFO, or even Boston, then what's the point?

I feel like I found a sound that is unique to country music, in my own lane.

If you go out and just play the old stuff and never write new stuff, you're not really a complete musician, you're a performer.

I had trouble fitting in, in a musical sense. A lot of drummers get sidetracked by the instrument. It can engulf you.

Somalis really are very musically sophisticated, and they're about their own thing.

The most important thing is that you honor that musical integrity, whether you make music that sounds like ABBA or you make music that sounds like Void.

But I've come to the point in my evolution on the instrument where I realize that I can't play the same stuff that just a guitar player or organ player would play - and I need to embrace that in a big way.

When I listen back to my music and everyone else that's out there, I'm aware that there's something I can do that the next guy doesn't do.

I wanted to make good records. But my problem is I've got a low boredom threshold, so I wanted it to look and sound different with each album, which is really tantamount to suicide, cause people lose it, they lose it - they say: 'I like that, and that's not this.'

I think no matter what kind of music you play, there will be moments when you feel like it's all been done before.