Maurice White Quotes

I don't think there's ever been any music quite like what we came up with.

Whenever I sing, I try to make it different, the sound that you've never heard before, and put something new, which people love.

I listened to the rock music of that time, but as you know and can easily hear: my music of that era had nothing to do with the common music of this era. I was experimenting, I was searching for something new.

We are aiming to create a one and only new music genre that exceeds the limits of pop and metal music.

I hate when bands make beige, middle-of-the-road music. I guess you can say 'Lonerism' is the war on beige music.

I think of a band like Animal Collective where they really follow their own sound and I think that's a really important thing to do. You can find an audience if you can find your voice.

I learned to do a few tricks that other people hadn't done before. I developed that trebly bass thing a little further.

I tried to take heavy metal... and balled it up and chopped it in half and really tried to create a new form of energy. I really tried to re-shape extreme music as I see it through my eyes.

I like to think of my style as pretty versatile. And I'd like whatever I record to reflect that to be mostly genre - to be just something that people want to listen on to see what I'm going to come up with next. That's the kind of music I'm into.

I definitely try to broaden the scope of music. I don't know if it's pop or classical or what, but I'm religiously challenging myself all the time, for better or for worse.

I'm trying to fuse popular and commercial music and just make very creative music. It's popular music: it's everything for everybody.

What I want to happen is to be really creative, and to play something new in the improvisations, every time.

I started doing up-and-down strumming, basically to keep time and to play fast. As time went on, I started realizing other guitar players couldn't do it. I always went against the grain.

I saw Mercury Prize-winners Alt-J for the first time recently, touring their debut album 'An Awesome Wave,' and I'm still riding the high: they're the most musically dynamic and exciting band to have poured tune into my lug holes live since Bellowhead.

My favorite band of all time is The Clash. The thing I love about The Clash is they started out as guys who could barely play three chords. They dabbled in reggae, punk, rap, jazz. They came to a sound that could only be defined as The Clash. It was impossible to say what it was. I admire them for that.

I'm sure I could start a band tomorrow that would have different influences and would want to do something completely different than anything I've done.

Any good music must be an innovation.

I feel that when you care about your music, taking risks is something you should do to keep things exciting.

Music should always be an adventure.

I made the tenor sax - there's nobody plays like me and I don't play like anybody else.

Pop music has been exhausted. The innocence has been exhausted. I think we've lost the ability to be blown away by music.

I realized pretty soon that I have to do more than just play bass in the background way. So, I developed a kind of playing which only a handful of musicians accepted.

If you think of any strange fusion with bachata, most likely, we've done it. It's bachata mixed with different elements. We don't follow any style.

What happened with reggaeton is that many artists kept recycling the same sound. But there are a lot of reggaeton artists that are still in their prime - like Daddy Yankee - because they've chosen to continue growing, to offer people more than just reggaeton. That's where I learned to always be able to try something new and not be afraid.

We're not complete prodigies musically and as a band together it takes more and more work to find something new and special.