Mary Timony Quotes

I found my sound early on. Look at U2: they haven't changed their music for 20 years. Anyway, many people come unstuck when they try to change what they do and what they are known for.

It's all about knowing your audience. When I buy a record by a band and it sounds completely different, I'm just like, 'Why didn't you change your band name?'

It's like with me, I feel like I was never one of those rappers that, you know, stayed in one time warp.

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.

With Pantera, we lived through so many trend-of-the-day situations - when grunge was huge, we were still a heavy metal band; when hip-hop started getting incorporated into metal, we stuck to our guns and remained a heavy metal band very purposefully.

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.

I love music, that it changes so much, but I also want to keep a bit of the country roots to make it country. I don't want to go too far away from it, or I would do pop music.

I think what the story of Yes has been is we've wandered in and out of different styles over the years.

In a way, I pattern myself after all the bands I used to like as a kid. Every time they put out LPs, they had a whole new look and a new sound.

Whatever I write has to evolve around my taste in music at that moment, because that always changes.

One thing I love about Lady Gaga is I feel like her sound is always evolving and changing with her and her phases of life.

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.

The older I get, the more interest I have in writing other kinds of music.

I think that, as well as Strapping Young Lad kind of having the name for themselves based on brutality and aggression, I think there's also something to be said to the fact that every Strapping record is different. They're all different.

I think it took me until - my twenties were really a time of exploration and experimentation with different groups and different types of music. Then I kind of developed the sound, which first appeared, I guess, on my first solo album 'Englaborn,' which came out in 2001.

I could have pigeonholed us and wrote a whole record like 'Pumped Up Kicks,' and we would have been this breezy, nostalgic West Coast Beach Boys recreation band. That's not the type of writer I am. Once I try one style, I move on.

Stylistically, we're trying to push things in different ways, but it always comes out sounding like Tool no matter what we're trying to do.

When we did 'Eliminator,' at the time, it was experimental for us. It obviously turned out real successful, but at the time, we caught crap about it from some of our old fans. They thought we were deserting our roots or our old style or whatever.

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.

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

I really haven't strayed too far, musically, from my roots.

It's probably a combination of personal and non-personal matters that have led us to where we are musically.

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

Me as an artist, I've ventured off into doing all types of music. I'll do a jazz album, you know what I mean.

I've discovered all kinds of music and done all kinds of music over the past 40 years, from playing tango with Piazzolla to all the different bands I've had.