Chris Ofili Quotes

I think it's always important to constantly keep the band on their toes and try new things that you hope will work. That's how 'Apologize' was born, and maybe down the line another little song will be born by that mentality. I've always really liked that song.

These are the sort of things that push you on in music - the curiosity, a passion for new ideas.

We're not complete prodigies musically and as a band together it takes more and more work to find something new and special.

All I ever wanted to do, personally, was bring something new to what I loved: the thing that I loved the most, the music that I loved the most.

You could say that everything the musicians have learned and known over the years, all of their technical resources, are in a dialogue with the things they are discovering every time, as if it was the first time.

I'm always trying to come up with something new and unique. I do a beatbox with a harmonica.

It's so much in me to want to keep experimenting all the time. It's just inherent. Therefore I keep reaching for instruments I don't particularly know how to play, and then I become excited.

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

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.

Thomas Dolby is part mad scientist, part nature boy, and entirely moved by the power of music.

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

You need the past as a guideline. The history of music is a good basis, but to escape that stuff, that tortuous rulebook, you have to learn it first. It's kind of like religion - once you've written the Bible, that's it, move on.

What I want to happen is to be really creative, and to play something new in the improvisations, every time.

To keep creating something with this type of music, you have to take it out of the box.

When I was in school, I really thought about soul a lot. I was listening a lot to Bjork and to the Commodores. I really wanted to know how they felt. And especially with Bjork, the music there told me wow, that's really her soul there.

Every day I look forward to getting with my instruments, trying new things.

You have got to make new music, that is the way that I look at it anyway.

When I begin working on a production, I don't really think about my previous album or albums. I try to have a real creative process.

What motivates us is always new music.

I'm always pulling and really feeding off of my inspirations. I think most musicians do.

I really just care about making music and how I can make it next.

I always imagine, and try to be on the lookout, for new things, for references that can inspire me creatively so I can showcase things that people haven't done before or that are new.

Especially with Fantomas, i'm just trying to stretch out what the band can do. Figuring out, really, on the job or on recordings, what I can or can't get away with.

I always want to keep moving musically and trying new things.

Brainfeeder makes me want to keep generating better music.