David Archuleta Quotes

I have tried, in all the ways I can, to make timeless music.

The Gershwin legacy is extraordinary because George Gershwin died in 1937, but his music is as fresh and vital today as when he originally created it.

I love all Yes music and love to play it live, but I'm most interested in making new music with Yes.

I want to write music that will outlive me.

I want to make music that stands the test of time.

I listened to the rock music of that time, but as you know and can easily hear: my music of that era had nothing to do with the common music of this era. I was experimenting, I was searching for something new.

I'll be making music 'til the day I die. I've done all kinds of stuff, and more is coming.

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

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.

You can't really take it for granted that people listen to your music. I want to write songs that are on par, at least in my mind, with the ones I've loved for my whole life and that will be around forever.

Our band Stereophonics never wanted to release a couple records and be the biggest band in the world for 10 minutes. We always wanted to stand the test of time, and make great music that people would want to listen to and that music lasts. We'd looked up to artists and bands that had big back catalogues.

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.

If our music survives, which I have no doubt it will, then it will because it is good.

Music is changing. I'm just doing what I'm doing, and hopefully in the next 20, 30 years, some kids can take what I'm doing and change it again. If the music doesn't move, then it's dead.

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.

After a couple of failed attempts, I came up with a weird tuning where I was dropping the G string down a step so that it became a seventh, and it got me to a place where I could play all these figures fairly easily. It was not an easy thing to work out.

But it can be hard to experiment when you're in a band.

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 always take care to have interesting chord progressions, because you can have the best sound design in the club, and you'll kill it in the club, but in five years, kids will have better sound design. But if your music is good, you'll always be able to listen to it, even in 20 or 50 years.

I think no matter what kind of music you play, there will be moments when you feel like it's all been done before.

I would like to think that Ben and myself have begun a partnership that will take us into different areas of music that we can continue to write, enjoy and keep me involved with music other then what I do with RUSH.

I have a curiosity that compels me to find ways to make music that are fresh and new.

They have all different names for music. I think the music I'm going to change the style with is going to be really, really big-years and years after I'm gone.

I learn stuff from making music every time I go in the studio. I'm continuing to try to find new ways to play in a song or be in a song and have a positive impact on a song.

I learned to do a few tricks that other people hadn't done before. I developed that trebly bass thing a little further.