Jerry Garcia Quotes

One of the reasons we survive as a band is that we are seen as a band of today. We don't want to be seen as a band that tours and plays old songs. We feel that we are making the best music of our careers.

Music changes, and I'm gonna change right along with it.

I'm very much a traditionalist, but I think it's important to know about tradition so that you can evolve the music you are deciding to make.

As my guitar playing dwindled, something else in my music got better.

I probably won't be able to hear it until five years from now anyway. That's when I always hear my own music. It takes five years to sit down with it after not hearing it for a couple of years.

I didn't know how well my first album had done; it was enough to get me to do the second album, which was a continuation of the music I'd worked on and perfected.

One thing that really appeals to me is this idea of music being a living thing that has an evolution that, in a way, enables the artist to sell a process rather than a piece of product.

When Kenny first came to me, I think he was thinking of making a nice little folk record, but in my opinion, folk music had come to an end and I felt he needed to go to the next step, the next generation.

Pop music has progressed.

If you look at a lot of the songs I've been involved in, there's always been this retro vibe. I started getting worried that I wasn't moving forward very much, nor was I even in tune with the music today. I almost scoffed at it.

The music that I've made in the past has had strong contemporary country roots, but I think moving on in music, I will branch out from that a bit.

I think music changes and it evolves.

Music is a continuum and the modern and avant-garde composers of today will be part of the standard repertoire 30 years from now.

Playing music is a lifetime's work. And if you want to carry on with it, you have to try to better yourself. You have to see where the music can take you.

Mary J. Blige has made the most improvement, to me, and the depth of the spirit and the soul in her music, the way she sings, gives her that 'it' factor.

Our music is becoming more mature.

I felt like I plateaued at playing drums, like I wasn't getting any better. I bought an electric pair of drums, sold my drum set, and got introduced to making beats.

I think the music that I'm writing and the stuff I'm going to do as I age will age.

Music has to change. I don't want to stay the same forever.

Music is constantly developing and changing.

Just trying to make my music as good as possible and to keep performing and just keep moving.

I think that the only goals that we try to set for ourselves is to evolve musically.

Music needs to move forward.

Music is never stationary; successive forms and styles are only like so many resting-places - like tents pitched and taken down again on the road to the Ideal.

As long as we keep learning new music and getting better musically, there's a good chance that the record deal won't change anything.