Sasha Velour Quotes

I love rearranging and reimagining tunes, so I want my audience to enjoy hearing songs in a new way and make their own discoveries.

We cling nervously to the melody, but we don't handle it freely, we don't really make anything new out of it, we merely overload it.

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

As a songwriter, you tend to develop your own style, your own technique, based around what it is you're trying to write and perform, in terms of your own music. So a way of evolving a guitar style as a songwriter is much easier, I think, than developing a true style of your own just from listening to music or playing other people's music.

A lot of songs are derivative of each other. Sometimes you need to take a departure from what you do to something that's slightly different in order to get inspiration.

I try to take the foundations of what music is and add some type of twist to it.

I just want to be a part of a band that will be able to reinvent themselves, you know.

It's a great honor when somebody takes your song and does something different with it. That's what music is all about: to constantly change what somebody else has done.

The one thing you don't want is that stale sound when you've done a line so much you can't find a fresh approach to it. Drop it.

There are certain songs that are sacred. People want to hear them just as they are in their head; they don't want you messing around with them. And then there are some other songs, if they've been around a long time in our set list, that I think we can take some creative liberties with.

From my time in 'King Crimson,' I'd describe a Progressive band as one that keeps trying to break musical barriers, and keeps trying to do new music.

When a lot of musicians change styles, their songwriting suffers because they want to be different.

Once we're inside a tune, we can do anything with it.

Your band members? Your band members don't want to be tied to a machine. They want to be playing. That's what the Beatles did. And the Beatles' stuff is timeless. That's what I would suggest. Just get back to sweating, playing hard, hammering, and having a blast.

In the Led Zeppelin shows of the Sixties and Seventies, it was the same numbers every night, but they were constantly in a state of flux. If I played something good, really substantial, I'd stick it in again.

I think that, as well as Strapping Young Lad kind of having the name for themselves based on brutality and aggression, I think there's also something to be said to the fact that every Strapping record is different. They're all different.

I love rethinking and reimagining songs.

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.

The greatest thing about me is I have always been able to reinvent. We have done that about three or four times with my sound.

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

Music is the most important thing. I'm thinking of my future. There has to be something new, and I want to be part of it. I want to lead an orchestra with excellent musicians. I want to play music which draws pictures of the world and its space

It's amazing to me to see how bands evolve and how they take all their influences and come up with their own sound.

I'm trying to change the root of funk, trying to make it more progressive, more melodic and more lyrically structured.

I love all Yes music and love to play it live, but I'm most interested in making new music with Yes.

I am fine with 'Puppy Love.' I hated it for a while. But I still sing it. I have a country version, a sexy version and a cheesy nightclub version. I am trying to infuse it with maturity. I will never escape that song. I will always be Mr. 'Puppy Love.'