BoA Quotes

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.

Every record that you do man, is sooo different in every way.

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.

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

Never try to make the same record twice, even when people are screaming for the same sound.

I definitely try to broaden the scope of music. I don't know if it's pop or classical or what, but I'm religiously challenging myself all the time, for better or for worse.

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

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.

As far as long-term goals, one of my favorite artists ever is Tegan and Sara, because every single one of their albums sounds different. Or Beck. I want to be like that because I come from so many different types of musical backgrounds.

I wanna record these girls individually. And then, I wanna cut a blues album on me. But all of it, original stuff, you know. When I listen to the blues today, it's like they all sounds similar. I wanna do something different, to try to add to the blues flavor.

The way Yes works is when we have a new member come in, as in Jon Davison, it's appropriate that we see what differences we can get out of a new contributing member in order to keep Yes interesting.

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.

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.

This song 'All Aboard,' that tune allowed me to expand and kind of offer my audience something totally different because it's not bachata - I'm singing English, and that was really fun.

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

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.

I just wanna make more music, legit music as opposed to keeping the same constant thing. I wanna show growth in the music, pretty much.

Dream Theater has never been a band that hit at a particular fashionable point and said, 'OK, that's basically it.'

I didn't want to be a one-hit wonder. I really wanted to make albums that had a different aesthetic every album and a different sound.

Every movie you score you hope is unlike anything you have done before. You are always trying to not sound like yourself.

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.

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.

Once I write something, I never try to write that same style again, because I get very schizophrenic musically.

A lot of singers find a musical genre people like and stick with it. That's being a conformist. I sing ballads, rock, salsa, rap.

I think it's always important to constantly keep the band on their toes and try new things that you hope will work. That's how 'Apologize' was born, and maybe down the line another little song will be born by that mentality. I've always really liked that song.