Justin Vernon Quotes

I take certain steps to make sure I'm relevant artistically. I always have new music and a reason to be on the road. I'm not just playing 'Get By' over and over. I have 12 albums.

I'm not sure I know how to make music anymore. Maybe you're given a window into things for a time, and beyond that maybe it goes away. Why should you expect it to stay?

There was, like, a point where music was slow for me, like '09. I wasn't getting that much work.

I think no matter what kind of music you play, there will be moments when you feel like it's all been done before.

There was an enormous amount of pressure when my first album took off, and I struggled with the speed of everything and the exhaustion from the constant touring.

Playing shows is really fun. And writing music is really fun. But going on tour for a year is one of the more soul-crushing experiences you can have as a creative person.

Aly and I went through just a long period of time where we just didn't feel creative musically. And, you know, we went through the whole writer's block thing, and we went through having two pretty successful records and figuring out how we want to transition as adults.

I think too many artists from my era tend to just stamp out a record.

You know, most good playwrights write seven good plays and then something happens and after that they're crap.

I think there is great interest amongst the younger people in this music. I think that there is a lot of them that are looking for interesting situations and music that is stimulating.

I don't even listen to music when I'm off tour.

The worst frustration for a singer is choosing a career in making music and then not being able to make music because you're always giving interviews.

I don't take breaks, man. In the past, I used to spend my free time getting in trouble, and now I spend it working on my music. If I'm not playing drums with my cover band, Chevy Metal, I'm working on songs for myself.

I'm free to make music - I'm sitting on about 40 or 45 new songs that I can't wait to put out.

I'm continuing to learn more about music - it's an ocean, and you can never really say that you know everything. I'm grateful that I'm still living and making music among the greats.

I have a hard time writing music when I'm on tour.

If I find myself just not feeling like writing songs anymore, I think I'll drop it. There's enough bad, insincere music out there. I don't need to contribute to that.

My whole life was writing, recording and touring over and over again. At some point I realised I wasn't enjoying myself any more.

I grew up with Al Jarreau. We had a band together and worked these places for three years when neither one of us knew we could make a living doing music.

I've always just adored music. It's my first love, really. I admire and respect people in the music business. You really have to work hard and diligently. Sometimes actors can be lazy and get away with it, but you can't do that if you're a musician.

Music has become a bigger business, and with that there is more pressure to succeed; I think that it creates a negative pressure for being creative.

I've always been in music. I started out in music, and I will continue to do music.

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

The problem as you get older is, from my perspective, after a certain amount of songs, you tend to start writing something and then you stop and say, 'Wait, I think I've written that before.'

If you've become a huge act and you're still doing the same music you wrote with your friends when you were making zero dollars, you're lazy.