Evan Parker Quotes

It's quite liberating to get to a certain age, 'cos you're not chasing number one hits or trying to be an international superstar. I've done all that. I'm not out to prove much more to anyone but myself really, to be an artist and see if there is a new undiscovered music out there for me to make.

All of this music, It's definitely been the most freeing thing that I've ever done.

I loved the Brazilian music I played. But this is finally me. For the first time I think it's really me.

The deeper I get into my life as a musician, I'm discovering that it becomes less and less about other people, and more about what I want to do. And that's a good place to be.

My intentions have been, and are always, to just really get behind what my ideas are musically and to just ride this thing out, cause it feels good, and I think for the most part it's good music. Even when it's not, I'd like to still search for something that could be even like a little bit mind-blowing or shocking to me.

After 12 intense years of rock music, I was happy to get away from making a record and going out on a tour. When I did it, I wanted to feel inspired. After a while I finally had my fill working on other people's music, and I started coming up with music on my own and said, 'This could be for me.'

It's never too late to do anything new when it comes to music.

Rock is about finding who you are. You don't necessarily have to play your instrument very well at all. You can just barely get by and you can be in a rock band.

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

Have you ever wondered why young people take to music like fish to water? Maybe it's because music is fun. Plan and simple. It opens up their minds to dream great dreams about where they can go and what they can do when they get older.

I never imagined I'd be a solo artist. And now I couldn't imagine being part of a group.

I had no idea I was gonna be a songwriter, because I was too young to know my own evolution. I started playing the violin as a way to express myself because I didn't have a lot of vocabulary when I was 14.

There's an amazing power that music has, and it definitely had its power over me as a boy. I just saw fit to keep exploring it.

That's the way I started playing music: just playing guitar by myself in my room when I was a kid, and exploring the guitar and exploring the space I was in, with no project in mind.

Music was never an obligation for me; from a very young age, I understood it as a moment of freedom where you could express yourself. I realized how much joy it could bring and how much that meant to me.

It's exhilerating to be able to explore my own voice.

My only incentive is to write music that changes me, where the process of making it is a discovery and is true in some way, at that moment.

I just worked my own personal thoughts into my music, and just kept at it until I found a way in.

I feel like I've had a really great time just being able to make all the music that I've always liked to make and listen to and expressing it in different ways.

It took me a long time to find my own voice, even after I started making my own music.

Everyone always comes to one point in their life as an artist where you can either let your heart guide you or your ego.

I think I have allowed my voice to experiment with the different genres. And I think that I have just really enjoyed the journey of getting to know my voice and seeing what it's capable of, what it's not capable of.

My first album was me finding myself and my voice, finding how I sing. I was rolling with the punches because everything was new to me.

The music I turn out these days is the kind of music I want to hear myself.

In terms of music, I can try anything I want, even something that doesn't work at all, because I'm not putting my career in jeopardy.