Mark Kozelek Quotes

If I had a stock of fabulous sounds I would just always use them. I wouldn't bother to find new ones.

The day I run out of ideas is the day I stop making records.

I've been good at creating new textures and new fabrics, like vocal hocketing, or interlocking guitars, or suggesting new ideas for style... that's what the band has really excelled at.

An artist or writer always has to move forward. All the time you're trying to improve yourself, or at least look at ways to improve things or make things better. I'm not really one to harp on previous records. I'm always looking forward to what I'm doing now, and what's ahead.

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

When you're doing an album, you need to come up with something new, be creative.

I love working with different artist with different styles and different producers with different sounds, creativity is everything.

I'm always looking to develop my sound and I'm in the studio whenever I have the time to do this. Always looking ahead!

For awhile there, I kind of hit the plateau. Anytime you do that as an artist, one of two things can happen... you're either going to start to fall back off, or you're gonna start to rise.

I love trying new things and experimenting with instruments and sounds.

When I'm in the studio, I'm experimenting, trying things on.

My goal for the rap game is just to make a lot of really dope music. That's really where I keep my mindset at: Just being obsessed over making something crazy and new every day.

I don't like to write the same song twice.

The hardest part for me is to finish a track. I start new projects all the time.

I try to design into a world that is constantly moving, and moving me.

I'm always moving forward and trying new things.

We kept moving forward and didn't try to recreate the past .. the approach to each album was radically different every time. Many bands would have some success and, because they were locked into having a single - something we didn't have to worry about - they had to make sure there was something similar on the next album ... that was never the idea with Led Zeppelin .. the goal was to keep that spark of spontaneity at all times.

I don't want to play old music. To me, it is fighting battles that are already over and calling yourself a warrior. For me, I see no courage or adventure in doing the old thing over again. If others want to, that's for them. For myself, I have to move on. Life is too short to live in the past. There is a lot to be done.

Artists who approach perfection do not have many ideas.

Don't let tradition paralyze your mind. Be receptive to new ideas. Be experimental. Try new approaches. Be progressive in everything you do.

Remember that, sooner or later, before it ever reaches perfection, you will have to let it go and move on and start to write the next thing. Perfection is like chasing the horizon. Keep moving.

I think it's necessary to keep moving forward. I've always said that nostalgia is death, really for anyone creative.

Of all the albums I've made, I still don't feel like I've made the perfect album. I've had ones that touch on this, and others that touch on that, but never one that's just perfect and fully relevant. I don't know if I'll ever make it, but I'm certainly trying every day.

People think innovation is just having a good idea but a lot of it is just moving quickly and trying a lot of things.

I'm always tweaking, always trying to make it better, constantly moving the levers and dials.