Ryuichi Sakamoto Quotes

Music is always gonna change; it's just a matter of keeping up with the times.

Musical revolutions, I don't know how many I've been through.

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

Rap evolves and to still be current you have to evolve with it! Get in front or get left behind.

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.

I think music changes and it evolves.

Music is always changing and the changes are unpredictable.

Time will change and with it music will too. Our speed has changed, clothes have changed, food habits have changed, so why should music remain the same?

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

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.

There's been a progression in my sound.

All old music was modern once, and much more of the music of yesterday already sounds more old-fashioned than works which were written three centuries ago.

Even though I loved the Fifties doo-wop, you couldn't hold on to it. You had to change, or you was gon' be antique real quick, like the Ink Spots. And then we were at Motown and you had the Rolling Stones, simple rock & roll became the new thing.

There are people who will always want the genre, whatever it is, to stay traditional, to stay what it was like when you were 15 years old, but I just don't think music does that. Music is always changing and evolving, just like us as people.

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

Even truth needs to be clad in new garments if it is to appeal to a new age.

It's very important for a brand to have an identity through the years, but it's very important as well to evolve because times change so fast.

I can see that if this was an album done 10 or 15 years ago we could see we were moving on to some place else.

It's like, how do you continue to make records that are representative of who you are that your fans will recognize as your band, while still trying to push things forward and present new sounds for people.

Music is changing. I'm just doing what I'm doing, and hopefully in the next 20, 30 years, some kids can take what I'm doing and change it again. If the music doesn't move, then it's dead.

We're not trying to change the world; just music.

The thing is with hip-hop, it has its waves and the waves crash against the beach and the new waves come in. So to stay relevant you have to roll with that.

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

Me and Jerry left because we felt we weren't getting anywhere playing our old songs in tiny clubs. The group was getting stale and staying behind the times.

We're not good at propping up old carcasses. We want to be on top of what's vital at any particular time, and not just hold onto something because it has a name.