Regina Spektor Quotes

Music is forever changing.

When pop and rock were taking over from jazz, and Sinatra was covering a Beatles song, it was all very new. I get to come at it from a different direction.

But times changed, and I changed, and I didn't feel that way anymore. The Beatles were happening. I think that was probably the main thing. The Beatles just changed the whole world of music.

When we started making electronic music I imagined that the reaction we got from the rock musicians must have been similar to the one the beat groups got from people like my dad.

Since the dawn of recorded music, every generation has felt shocked by the musical tastes of the next.

If you're an impressionistic painter and you want to paint expressionism, you've got to change. You've got to figure out a way to do it and do it. If you've been playing jazz all your life and you want to start to play rock n' roll, blues, then do it.

Bob Dylan may be the Charlie Chaplin of rock n' roll. Both men are regarded as geniuses by their entire audience. Both were proclaimed revolutionaries for their early work and subjected to exhaustive attack when later works were thought to be inferior. Both developed their art without so much as a nodding glance toward their peers.

When I grew up, there was one music: rock n' roll. Somewhere along the line, there was a separation. I don't know why it happened, but it did happen.

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.

Music needs to move forward.

It frustrated me at college that all the acts in the Top 10 were like The Moody Blues and Phil Collins. It was like why did we get stuck with the last generation's music, why can't we have our own?

I think the best artists are the ones who constantly change - Madonna, Bowie.

Generation after generation, there is this never-ending, contemptuous, condescending attitude to the next generation or the next way of thinking: music, art, politics, whatever. And I have never been like that.

I can't make hard street music for the rest of my life. Your references change.

In high school, I got into folk music, and I taught myself guitar. And when The Beatles came out, I got an electric guitar.

If you look at these bands like The Beatles, they did something that was new for that time, whether it was shocking or just a new direction that they were going.

I wrote 'Threnody,' then I wrote several works where I changed my music completely.

My music divides people!

Art is in the process of redefining our relationships to each other ... The creative minds are bubbling, bubbling, and I know the soup that's coming up next time is going to feed a lot more of us.

Aging will create the music of the coming century.

Art has arrived at the paradox that tradition itself requires the occurrence of radical attacks on tradition.

We come from a generation that wanted to make electronic music accepted, at a time [when] it was not.

David Bowie emerged as a rock star in the late '60s. And as Ken Tucker wrote, "In the face of the hippy era's sincerity, intimacy and generosity, Bowie presented irony, distance and self-absorption. His song 'Changes' announced the arrival of a new counterculture," unquote.

I transformed myself in the zero of form and emerged from nothing to creation, that is, to Suprematism, to the new realism in painting - to non-objective creation.

If someone took the finest marble and knew how to shape it artfully: Prometheus' material was lowly clay, but his statues walked.