Ben Gibbard Quotes

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.'

The only phrase I've ever disliked is, 'Why, we've always done it that way.' I always tell young people, 'Go ahead and do it. You can always apologize later.'

We do not want to repeat ourselves [in Doctor Strange] or do what's been done before necessarily, and when you have a track record now you can either do that and keep, this seems to work and let's keep doing this - which some people accuse us of no matter what, because I don't think they pay attention, but really what we do is say, 'Okay, we have a studio that trusts us and let's us do what we want for the most part with the creative.

I just like so many different kinds of music that I like experimenting. I don't want to keep making the same record over and over and over. I'm an 'evolve or die' kind of a musician. I think it's cool to try new things.

I think that all my albums are different enough where I don't feel like I did this the last time.

'Bloodshot,' for me, was unlike anything I'd ever done before, which was really the draw of it. In addition to trying to reconnect with my earlier work, I also wanted to try to do something that was completely new and different.

I do not like to repeat successes, I like to go on to other things.

Designers and musicians are primed to keep thinking forward. Once an album or collection launches, you can only think about doing the next one.

Now U2's not my favorite band, but I do respect them, and in the same way I respect Bowie: They change without fear of change.

No, it's not dissatisfaction that inspires me to tinker with my songs, it's just restlessness.

If you do the same thing every night, that's the death of music.

You're always in a different headspace when you make each record, so hopefully they're all different. You just pick up things that you wish you hadn't done on the first one.

I'm content with making records, but I don't want to be doing the same thing all the time.

'Law 3' shows my growth as a rapper. I don't really like maintaining, so on every project, I'm going to show you my growth.

Speculation and the exploration of ideas beyond what we know with certainty are what lead to progress.

Miles Davis would have this lineup of all these amazing musicians and one day would just say, 'We're done.' After tons of great records and tickets sold, he said, 'Now I'm going to grow my hair out and play my horn through a wah-wah pedal.' Rather than play it safe, he went on.

I think there's a reason to go off and do something and experiment - splinter off and do something different. It keeps the nucleus of Fleetwood Mac fresh.

Innovation is so hard and so frustrating; it takes the intersections of people with courage, vision, and resources.

Innovation requires an experimental mindset.

I'm not interested in re-creating the same blues I love so much. I'm interested in pushing boundaries.

I think of each record as different and not having very much in common with what went before or what comes next.

I think if anything, what 'The Astonishing' proved is that we're always going to experiment.

We'll support anyone who's doing something fresh.

That's kind of the nature of being in a progressive band - always trying new things, moving forward.

If you stick with one sound and one way of working, how will you ever progress?