Allan Holdsworth Quotes

I grew up listening to everything. I have such a love for music, but I don't want to make the same album over and over again.

Jazz is not the format where I want to stay, but it really is a starting point for me.

I have a soft spot for 'Wind of Change' because it was my first one, and it was a departure from Humble Pie - very much so. It showed me the spectrum of what I could do.

I've seen and learned enough to keep my music fresh and spread out.

I did country way back when I was, like, 13-14 years old, and then I kind of fell into the pop genre.

If you actually go back and listen to my first album, there are some things on there that are kind of rock 'n' roll.

Reggaeton is what opened the doors for me, and I'm always grateful for that. I'll do reggaeton for life, but I want to show that I'm an artist who can do everything.

I think that the only goals that we try to set for ourselves is to evolve musically.

I think that every band tries to mature their sound through their existence, you know?

I've been making music for a long time, since I was very young, but at the same time, I'm still exploring what works for me. I feel like I'm just starting out.

A lot of times, when a band finds success with a certain style or sound, they have a really hard time breaking away from that to grow as artists.

The music that I've made in the past has had strong contemporary country roots, but I think moving on in music, I will branch out from that a bit.

I've done so many hip-hop albums already I got tired of just hip-hop.

People ask me how could I go from country to jazz. It's been a natural convergence for me.

I'm just expanding my sound and making it bigger.

You have to grow with the music.

In my early days, I sang rock stuff, but the career didn't kick until '67.

If there's only one genre that it's possible to listen to or possible to see live, then how can you explore different styles? How can you evolve, musically?

Music is constantly developing and changing.

I feel like it's a necessary part of musical development to go through that phase where you think that your favorite style of music is the only style of music, and I thought that for a while.

We started the band when I was about 19 or 20. At that age, it would have been kind of hard to imagine a lot of the stuff that I've written. We were playing garage rock. I wanted to dash out three chords and scream. But if you do that for 20 years, what's the point?

I don't want people to expect the hard tracks to continue my whole career. When I started making music, I wasn't making music like that.

My playground as a musician is growing.

We'll see some simplistic players for a while, who'll then get into more complicated things and evolve with their instruments. This is a cycle that happens over and over again in music.

I love stretching myself musically.