Tony Levin Quotes

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

I'm a 50-year-old guy making music for over 20 years. I've been writing songs since I was 20, so it's really been 30 years, and it's always been personal, but I've always told stories.

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.

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

'Just What I Am' took me all of 10 minutes to make. 'Immortal' maybe took 30 minutes. It's not hard for me. 'Indicud' is almost what my first album should have sounded like, had I really been able to channel all of the ideas I had into music.

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

Music in general is looking for something new overall.

Nothing I'm doing musically is revolutionary in any way, shape, or form.

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

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

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

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.

I am optimistic about the future of music.

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.

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.

Being on the road is a great habitat for creating new music because there's so many different experiences.

If our history can challenge the next wave of musicians to keep moving and changing, to keep spiritually hungry and horny, that's what it's all about.

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.

I am pretty embroiled in moving on and moving forward with music.

For me, making music is a continuous learning experience, and I think that it feeds itself.

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

You're just playing, playing, playing, and then an image or something will come into your mind, and basically you're just narrating it with music, letting it move along.

I just start playing music and eventually I sing something, a line of a verse or a B section or a line of a chorus, and the line that I end up singing is related to the music I'm playing, if that makes any sense. And I go from there.

Every time I write a song my approach changes.

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