Eberhard Weber Quotes

In the past, I tried to be more of a typical session guitarist. I wasn't so concerned with impressing anybody.

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.

In music, I wanted to make sure I was innovating.

If you go out and just play the old stuff and never write new stuff, you're not really a complete musician, you're a performer.

The most important thing is that you honor that musical integrity, whether you make music that sounds like ABBA or you make music that sounds like Void.

Today each composer is not only involved in aesthetics, but he's actually trying to create his own language.

The reflection of the world is blues, that's where that part of the music is at. Then you got this other kind of music that's tryin' to come around.

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.

I wanted to make good records. But my problem is I've got a low boredom threshold, so I wanted it to look and sound different with each album, which is really tantamount to suicide, cause people lose it, they lose it - they say: 'I like that, and that's not this.'

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.

My favorite band of all time is The Clash. The thing I love about The Clash is they started out as guys who could barely play three chords. They dabbled in reggae, punk, rap, jazz. They came to a sound that could only be defined as The Clash. It was impossible to say what it was. I admire them for that.

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

But, on the other hand, if Schubert were alive today, he would find even richer fields to plow.

Music should always be an adventure.

The combination of experience and experimentation will ultimately yield a personal sound.

I study what's happening in music. I want to sound different than everybody else.

When you say, 'Man, what kind of music does Outkast make?' You be like, 'They make Outkast music.' What kind of music does N.E.R.D. make? They make N.E.R.D. music. I want to be one of those people, because there's so many layers to the music I create that I don't want people to expect me to do one thing.

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 told all my punk friends, 'If I'm gonna do country music, I'm gonna milk it.'

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

You could say that everything the musicians have learned and known over the years, all of their technical resources, are in a dialogue with the things they are discovering every time, as if it was the first time.

I had trouble fitting in, in a musical sense. A lot of drummers get sidetracked by the instrument. It can engulf you.

A lot of people from my generation of music are so focused on playing things correctly or to perfection that they're stuck in that safe place.

I don't try to make the guitar sound like the harpsichord or lute. That makes you end up being like a bad copy.

Certainly being proficient in an instrument does have its problems. Because the better you get, the more you just start sounding like an ordinary guitarist. There are certainly guitarists that transcend that and do really find their sound and all that sort of stuff.