Robert Wilson Quotes

I am so envious of my colleagues from 100 years ago who only sang new works, they hardly ever sang revivals.

New music is absolutely integral to classical music.

I feel like David Byrne is a great example of someone who is always in the 'now' moment of music and finding reasons to be excited and always seeing what's special about it.

I was sick of fast, aggressive music; I felt like I needed to make a poppy thing. But, right now, I feel like I need to make a Hawkwind/Sabbath record. It gets boring if you just do the same thing all the time.

I love finding out-of-the-box inspirations and blending them with what I've done in the past. And when I started to experiment with genres, it didn't sound forced. Maybe that's because it's all music that I listened to growing up, and it's all music that I love.

Yes, I tried to change the classical style in a way that people who don't understand it can enjoy.

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 think that all my albums are different enough where I don't feel like I did this the last time.

I've seen and learned enough to keep my music fresh and spread out.

There are infinite modes of expression in the world of art, and to insist that only by one road can the artist attain his ends is to limit him.

Unquestionably, our contemporary world of music is far richer, in a sense, than earlier periods, due to the historical and geographical extensions of culture to which I have referred.

I love hip-hop and soul, but I desperately want to challenge it and see what I can bring to it.

I would have to say I'm bored with the standard rock, guitar solos, but I've done it for five albums now, and this time I wanted to go in a completely different direction. I wasn't interested in showing off any more.

I'm in a position where, theoretically, I could play the same ten concertos and make a very good living bouncing around playing Mendelssohn, Tchaikovsky and Barber, but I really think artists should keep pushing limits and trying new things.

In order to do a musical now, a style must be developed that works for today's audience.

As a musician, I look for certain things that stimulate me. And what I look for is something that's an evolution on a particular genre that I never heard before.

I think a lot of Indians want Indian artists to be cultural cheerleaders rather than cultural investigators.

While a large segment of the art world has obsessed over a tiny number of stars and their prices, an aesthetic shift has been occurring. It's not a movement - movements are more sure of themselves. It's a change of mood or expectation, a desire for art to be more than showy effects, big numbers, and gamesmanship.

In the range of music that we play - roughly 300 years' worth-there really are more similarities than differences.

What I'm hoping is that every album I'm going to do will give my audience something different, and that they'll grow as I do.

In the beginning of rock n' roll, there was always innovation. Artists were always trying to do something new and something different.

I feel that the music that I do is somewhat of a lost art and it's not as popular as dance or pop music and people are not as interested in it. But it's something that I believe in and I feel that it's needed, so that's why I do it and I will keep doing it until everybody hears it and gets it.

All the classical genres are now ridiculous in their rigorous purity.

As an artist, you never want to write the same song again, you always want to challenge yourself to writing in a different way.

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