Lloyd Banks Quotes

I grew up listening to everything. I have such a love for music, but I don't want to make the same album over and over again.

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.

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.

The music that I've made in the past has had strong contemporary country roots, but I think moving on in music, I will branch out from that a bit.

Towards the end with Pantera - although I was never unhappy with the music we were making - it became one-dimensional, and we wanted to open things back up.

I'm constantly evolving as a musician.

I think that every band tries to mature their sound through their existence, you know?

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.

The more I compose, the more I know that I don't know it all. I think it's a good way to start. If you think you know it all, the work becomes a repetition of what you've already done. I try to make sure that I don't repeat my music.

Being able to take musical ideas through every iteration is attractive to me. Granted, not everyone's going to want to listen to that, but it should exist.

I'm always looking to create new avenues or new visions of music.

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

Jazz is not the format where I want to stay, but it really is a starting point for me.

I think to stay in one sound is a career killer.

In the '70s, my playing was completely untutored, but it sounded good to me, and I tried to find ways to make those very simple things work in more ambitious contexts.

What I appreciate about Sleater-Kinney is that we did six records, and they all felt different. It was a band that was able to encapsulate different sensibilities because we were focusing on it as music and art and not as a statement.

I feel like my music has become a lot of things. It's hard to label the evolution, but I like there to be an evolution. I just like to paint with all different kinds of colors.

People get caught up in recreating something, and that actually hurts the genre of music because there's nothing new.

I'm just expanding my sound and making it bigger.

I just wanna make more music, legit music as opposed to keeping the same constant thing. I wanna show growth in the music, pretty much.

I have a soft spot for 'Wind of Change' because it was my first one, and it was a departure from Humble Pie - very much so. It showed me the spectrum of what I could do.

Obviously, you want to honour the sound of your music, but I'm definitely open to trying new things and making myself use a different palette of sounds.

If you're not changing what you're doing and exploring different parts of your musical output, I think you're slowly dying.

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