Laurent Brancowitz Quotes

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.

Music has to keep moving. But I was lucky. For me there was always something around the corner.

Music is always changing and the changes are unpredictable.

What I do is, I look at rock guitar players, and I say to myself, 'What is this guy doing? What does he have that can inspire me?' I try to see what other people are doing and take what they have and turn it and twist it into my own thing.

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

I try to take the foundations of what music is and add some type of twist to it.

Since music is a reflection of our mindset and our culture, it is bound to change with time. I am glad that India is such a receiving country and is always open to all kinds of music. Our composers, singers and writers are open to experimenting.

In music, as I find myself forever saying, things don't get better or worse: they evolve and transform themselves.

No, it's not dissatisfaction that inspires me to tinker with my songs, it's just restlessness.

Of course, we didn't survive to play all the way through the '90s, so I can say that - as I said, everybody in the band was aware of this, and we trying to figure out ways to make it different.

I think music changes and it evolves.

Every time I do a cover, I completely... pick apart - I take apart the entire song and really reconstruct it. I try and make it my own.

It's like, whenever I do any kind of cover, if it's a jazz piece or pop cover, I want to honor the original and make sure that the bulk and the juice of what makes that so great is there, but take it to a different place.

I love rethinking and reimagining songs.

You could say, 'Oh, we're gonna write the heaviest album of all time' or 'We're gonna write an album that sounds like 'Iowa.'' Even if we set out to try to do so, it would never compare. We're not those people anymore, we're not that band anymore.

To be able to take music and do something as profoundly original as what we did with the Allman Brothers, you've got to put some time into it.

Our music is constantly evolving and changing, and when this band put out an album we always try to offer something different.

I've always been a good imitator. I love music. But I'm just not that original.

We were playing popular music, but we were doing our own arrangements because we were too lazy to sit down and figure out the originals.

I do not think that music keeps evolving. It evolved through Bach; since then, in my humble opinion, all the innovations added nothing.

I shall always respect the composer. If I embellish, it is his idea I am embellishing.

Music. It's all creativity right here, right now.

Presented with a song like Exit Music, It's impossible to know what to add without actually making it worse. How can you play along when It's already there?

There's a lot of music at my fingertips that I can be influenced by. And just because I play a horn, I don't need to sound, or try to capture, what was happening before me. I can just respect it and learn from it.

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