Les Claypool Quotes

Most singers begin with a band and then go solo. I started making music on my own and subsequently chose to carry on as part of a band.

Pushing yourself and digging into something new, that's what being a musician is all about.

Even when I'm making my own solo records, I'm collaborating with people. It keeps things interesting for me.

Sometimes you write songs that don't all fit together. What do you, just throw them away? This might be a chance for growth and learning. It could be a horrible fall-on-your-face kind of experiment.

What I do is I basically make records to please myself first and foremost, and so one of the most important things for me as a musician and a writer and a producer is to feel like there's always a sense of evolution and reinvention with each record.

I knew exactly what to do in The Seekers but I didn't know what it would be like to be a solo artist.

Inviting artists to do something, you want it to be a place where they're going to feel challenged and excited and that will maybe open up some new doorway in their own lives or their own creative practice.

I admire actresses who are willing to jettison the easy route toward exposure and commercial success as an actor in favor or a slow burn, choosing projects carefully, and building an artistic practice over time that feels specific to who they are as artists.

A lot of Knxwledge's instrumentals just brought out this tone and swagger that I had played with before but had never really pinpointed before on my Anderson .Paak stuff. But then it just came so easily.

I've been singing one kind of genre for a long time but have always tried to push to new auras about picking new songs or the same kind of genre but trying to sing it differently, treating it differently.

I believe that music should really be without boundaries.

I try to make sure the projects that I choose are something that will teach me something new, either about myself or about my art.

We want to create content that our fans will like but at the same time stretches us creatively, with our own little touch.

This project, 'Electronica,' is about working with people who are a strong source of inspiration to me.

I truly enjoyed my time with Manson and have the greatest respect for the incredible fans. I am grateful to have contributed over two dozen songs to his projects. It was a great creative outlet for me at that point in my career.

One has to always do better work than their previous film. It is essential to do something new every time.

One thing that feels very important to me as an artist is to continually challenge myself and push myself to do all kinds of different things.

As an actor, it's good to try to do new things, I think.

After years of doing composition, the risk is always that you might start to repeat and be cliche. Every time, I try find a way to be reborn again as an artist. Its not easy to reinvent yourself every time, as it takes a lot of creative energy, but I am happy to do it.

Collaboration is part of what keeps me interested in music.

When some artistes give a hit song, they keep repeating themselves in the same genre. I always try to create something new.

Every movie you score you hope is unlike anything you have done before. You are always trying to not sound like yourself.

I want to make every film different from my previous one.

I don't want to do roles in films which I have already done on TV. What is the point of jumping to films and doing the same thing?

I feel my voice can fit in many things so it's very interesting to combine things and music styles.