Johnny Thunders Quotes

I'm going to keep evolving and evolving and showing people that progression is key when it comes to music.

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.

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.

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

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

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

I feel like bands should be growing, living, functioning entities and to crystallize a band into a single album, and for that to be a touchstone - I understand it from a fan's perspective but I also feel like it's a little bit misleading in terms of the way bands actually function.

Music should be pushed forward.

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 not interested in re-creating the same blues I love so much. I'm interested in pushing boundaries.

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

Music is constantly developing and changing.

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

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 seen and learned enough to keep my music fresh and spread out.

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 can't see myself just endlessly singing the same songs over and over again.

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

If you look back, you get stuck in a year. I've seen rappers and singers get stuck in 2002 or 2005, and they can't get out.

Certain jazz musicians just copy what was done 100 years ago. The music won't grow if nobody takes a risk.

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.

All genres of music have to evolve, grow, and expand in order to maintain. I don't think there's anything wrong with the growth of R&B. I welcome it.

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.

The danger of a rock band is repeating oneself. It's our greatest fear - that it evolves into the myopia of a semi-successful band that's in love with its own shadow.

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