Sade Adu Quotes

I don't want to write the same song over and over again.

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

The danger in playing a piece over and over again lies in getting stuck in a rut where you don't ask questions anymore and you always play it the same way.

I don't jump on to singing every song of mine because I feel that will make my music repetitive.

It's all about the balance. For musicians, me personally, you just can't keep doing covers or mash-ups. It would get old pretty fast.

I grew up listening to everything. I have such a love for music, but I don't want to make the same album over and over again.

I've seen and learned enough to keep my music fresh and spread out.

After ten or twelve years you can only play something so long and then you start to parody it.

Jazz is not the format where I want to stay, but it really is a starting point for me.

I'm getting bored performing the same songs over and over. Songwriting comes and goes.

I've done so many hip-hop albums already I got tired of just hip-hop.

Musicians tend to get bored playing the same thing over and over, so I think it's natural to experiment.

I think to stay in one sound is a career killer.

Towards the end with Pantera - although I was never unhappy with the music we were making - it became one-dimensional, and we wanted to open things back up.

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

If there's only one genre that it's possible to listen to or possible to see live, then how can you explore different styles? How can you evolve, musically?

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

I get bored of music really easily, so I always try and make music that makes sense, but then it's just a little bit wrong.

Our music is constantly evolving and changing, and when this band put out an album we always try to offer something different.

I think it's rather a waste of time endlessly singing the same songs every night for a year, and it's just not what I want to do.

I love stretching myself musically.

I feel like I'm always fighting not to repeat myself.

I am optimistic about the future of music.

I think that every band tries to mature their sound through their existence, you know?

A lot of times, when a band finds success with a certain style or sound, they have a really hard time breaking away from that to grow as artists.