Henry Mancini Quotes

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

There is a terrible conservatism, like a cancer, right in the heartlands of music-making, a tremendous resistance to change, an absolute horror of the idea that more people might connect with music. That infuriates me more than I can say.

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.

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

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

I think that the only goals that we try to set for ourselves is to evolve musically.

Music needs to move forward.

I am optimistic about the future of music.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

I think music changes and it evolves.

Music is always changing and the changes are unpredictable.

Music in general is looking for something new overall.