Billy Sheehan Quotes

Music really evolves as it goes along. It's an evolution.

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

In music, as I find myself forever saying, things don't get better or worse: they evolve and transform themselves.

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

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

I think music changes and it evolves.

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

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

It's a great honor when somebody takes your song and does something different with it. That's what music is all about: to constantly change what somebody else has done.

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

Music is so transient. You've just got to move with it.

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

That's kind of the nature of being in a progressive band - always trying new things, moving forward.

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.

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

No, it's not dissatisfaction that inspires me to tinker with my songs, it's just restlessness.

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.

But of course it's different now, the blues is no longer blues, it's green now.

Music in general is looking for something new overall.

A lot of songs are derivative of each other. Sometimes you need to take a departure from what you do to something that's slightly different in order to get inspiration.

'Law 3' shows my growth as a rapper. I don't really like maintaining, so on every project, I'm going to show you my growth.

I've realised that if it is to remain relevant, contemporary music needs to change.

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