Luke Bryan Quotes

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

Miles Davis would have this lineup of all these amazing musicians and one day would just say, 'We're done.' After tons of great records and tickets sold, he said, 'Now I'm going to grow my hair out and play my horn through a wah-wah pedal.' Rather than play it safe, he went on.

I always want to keep moving musically and trying new things.

The fun for me musically is that you never quite know what works and why. So why pretend you do? Why not just put things together and discover, in the creative process, if and why they work? That approach has served me well.

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.

Musicians are always eclectic. Musicians are always curious and hungry for new things.

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

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

When you tune your guitar in a different way, it lends itself to a new way of looking at your songwriting.

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.

Certain jazz musicians just copy what was done 100 years ago. The music won't grow if nobody takes a risk.

What happened with reggaeton is that many artists kept recycling the same sound. But there are a lot of reggaeton artists that are still in their prime - like Daddy Yankee - because they've chosen to continue growing, to offer people more than just reggaeton. That's where I learned to always be able to try something new and not be afraid.

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.

Especially with Fantomas, i'm just trying to stretch out what the band can do. Figuring out, really, on the job or on recordings, what I can or can't get away with.

I'm always going to be experimenting musically, trying new things.

If you're always playing the correct notes, there's something wrong - you're not searching; you're not reaching for anything.

That's kind of the nature of being in a progressive band - always trying new things, moving forward.

The beautiful thing about working with new instruments is that you sort of approach it with a fresh perspective.

I think to try to make new music and new ideas, you have to push the boundaries of existing music.

As an artist, you tend to gravitate to the opposite. I know, when I finish a song or an album, I'm interested in doing something completely new. It doesn't always happen, but that's the idea. My poor fans - I don't know if they love that or hate that.

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

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

Maybe the biggest thing that I've learned musically is that anything is possible. Things can work when maybe they don't seem like they can.

My songwriting and my style became more complex as I listened, learned, borrowed and stole and put my music together.

Miles Davis fully embraced possibilities and delved into it. He was criticized heavily from the jazz side. He was supposed to be part of a tradition, but he didn't consider himself part of a tradition.