Thomas Bangalter Quotes

Everybody in Lynyrd Skynyrd loves different styles of music, and our minds are very open when it comes to writing our songs and making the band true to what the band is, but also stepping out and doing something current.

The greatest thing about me is I have always been able to reinvent. We have done that about three or four times with my sound.

Musicians are always eclectic. Musicians are always curious and hungry for new things.

I never thought that I would be creating my own 'cross-over' genre. What I did was very real and organic. I have worked in so many different styles so it all just came together.

I think it's healthy to have a lot of different styles within a genre. It makes it much more interesting.

I just like blending all the genres together but blending them up in a good way. I try to be as free as I can with it.

I feel my voice can fit in many things so it's very interesting to combine things and music styles.

As an artist, you tend to gravitate to the opposite. I know, when I finish a song or an album, I'm interested in doing something completely new. It doesn't always happen, but that's the idea. My poor fans - I don't know if they love that or hate that.

I feel like my music is like - there are always new influences in there.

I just like so many different kinds of music that I like experimenting. I don't want to keep making the same record over and over and over. I'm an 'evolve or die' kind of a musician. I think it's cool to try new things.

Every record that you do man, is sooo different in every way.

I've been making music for a long time, since I was very young, but at the same time, I'm still exploring what works for me. I feel like I'm just starting out.

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

I like writing different types of music. I don't like being stuck into one thing.

I've been called 'musically schizophrenic,' and some people think that's a cool thing.

I made records in the past that are as traditional as any other country records that have been made, but at the same time the records have a contemporary slant on it too.

I think what the story of Yes has been is we've wandered in and out of different styles over the years.

You don't just have to be influenced by rock, or goth, anymore. It's okay to say, 'My influences are Tin Pan music from Bali and Rihanna.' There are still so many combinations that haven't been done yet.

Hip hop is doing the new rock thing; there are no rules. They can do anything, really. And that's inspiring.

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

You're always in a different headspace when you make each record, so hopefully they're all different. You just pick up things that you wish you hadn't done on the first one.

I had to make different kinds of music for everybody but still keep it classic T-Pain at the same time.

Eclecticism is the word. Like a jazz musician who creates his own style out of the styles around him, I play by ear.

Growing up in Miami, having these different cultures and being inspired in so many ways musically has let me have a very long career, 'cause just when you think I'm gonna do this type of record, I go and do something else.

I think every time, before we do an album, we have a discussion where we sort of consider the idea of doing something radically different.