Drake Quotes

To keep creating something with this type of music, you have to take it out of the box.

What I really like doing is taking risks, musically.

In terms of music, I can try anything I want, even something that doesn't work at all, because I'm not putting my career in jeopardy.

I'm always looking to create new avenues or new visions of music.

I think there's quite a lot of cowardice in music. I don't mind if it goes wrong, I just want to go for it.

You have got to make new music, that is the way that I look at it anyway.

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.

I've never been one to just play safe music and think that's all there is to it.

I think it's always important to constantly keep the band on their toes and try new things that you hope will work. That's how 'Apologize' was born, and maybe down the line another little song will be born by that mentality. I've always really liked that song.

I've never played it safe on my own music.

My intentions have been, and are always, to just really get behind what my ideas are musically and to just ride this thing out, cause it feels good, and I think for the most part it's good music. Even when it's not, I'd like to still search for something that could be even like a little bit mind-blowing or shocking to me.

Improvised music involves a lot of intuition and I like developing intuition.

The drive to create music that is pure is my highest priority. Sometimes I'll get extremely technical, and other times I'll just kind of go with the gods of music.

I took a lot of time to open myself up to taking chances musically.

Joining Modest Mouse was just consistent with what I used to do as a teenager: I followed where I thought I would make some interesting music.

I'm definitely a risk-taker with my music.

It's never too late to do anything new when it comes to music.

People think that when they're playing it safe, they're trying to preserve what they have, but there is no preservation of what you have in music. There's no safety in music.

Any talk of 'craft' makes me laugh. My music looks outward; it does not gaze upon itself in admiration. Artisanal is for cheesemakers. I don't know anything about music theory. Every time I approach my guitar, it's like the first time. There's no craft in that.

I think music needs danger; it needs risk.

I got to realizing that I wanted to record, I wanted to experiment. And doing those same old songs the same old way - I said, 'I think it's time for me to have some fun.'

Where music leads, I follow.

Music should always be an adventure.

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

But that's something that I like about scoring film: it makes me reach out of the parameters of my self, it requires me to do things musically that I wouldn't normally do left to my own devices.