Javed Ali Quotes

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

I never thought that I would be creating my own 'cross-over' genre. What I did was very real and organic. I have worked in so many different styles so it all just came together.

Everybody in Lynyrd Skynyrd loves different styles of music, and our minds are very open when it comes to writing our songs and making the band true to what the band is, but also stepping out and doing something current.

People come in because they like 'Old Town Road.' They'll find out that I'm just not going to stick to that.

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'm always trying to come up with something new and unique. I do a beatbox with a harmonica.

You'll find little schools of musicians experimenting with different ways of making music in Brooklyn, all through Manhattan, in Queens, in Jersey, you know? The city is still bubbling with creativity.

What I want to happen is to be really creative, and to play something new in the improvisations, every time.

Hip hop is doing the new rock thing; there are no rules. They can do anything, really. And that's inspiring.

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

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

Eclecticism is the word. Like a jazz musician who creates his own style out of the styles around him, I play by ear.

I'm very, very open to experimenting with different people and trying to find different methods of writing and making music.

None of my songs sound the same. None of them. I take R&B beats and put it as a rap song or hip-hop beats and put them as a R&B song. A lot of people are boring. I don't like boring music. Everybody sounds the same, like they copying.

If you think of any strange fusion with bachata, most likely, we've done it. It's bachata mixed with different elements. We don't follow any style.

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

Just based on the primary adage of the necessity breeding innovation, it was just like 'Well, what makes me the guitar player that I am?' and I feel like I listen to so much different music, and I'm a student of so many genres of music, and I feel like it's fun to apply those things and anything super applicable to any type of music.

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.

I think I have the capability to make music different from what I have already released. There are ghazals and other songs that I can create. There is no stopping me though.

I feel like my music is like - there are always new influences in there.

I am optimistic about the future of music.

I don't want to limit myself musically. It would be really limiting if we'd neglect something we really want to do, like explore other styles of music.

Allan had come down wanting to do some sort of crucial music and I'd been involved in so-called Art Music and wanted to explore other areas - we were approaching it in some quite tongue-in-cheek ways and we had a lot of fun - we spent more time laughing than playing music.

I can't just turn over and sing disco or rock.

You just keep playing. If someone special comes along and organizes it in a new way, then you'll have another approach and everybody will jump on it to try to learn.