Edgard Varese Quotes

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

I am optimistic about the future of music.

We're not trying to change the world; just music.

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

I think Lady Gaga is great and is changing pop music and bringing back a certain rock 'n' roll spirit, swagger to the game.

Pop music is so structured, and I'm excited to try and challenge that in my own work.

I have no interest in making music that's built for an antique shop.

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

I think music changes and it evolves.

I think that there's always great music being made. Always has been, always will be.

Music in general is looking for something new overall.

I'm very much a traditionalist, but I think it's important to know about tradition so that you can evolve the music you are deciding to make.

I wanted to try a different way of making music. That's what made me try different things with my voice.

I was the audience he wanted to reach. Gram Parsons' writing brought his own personal generations poetry and vision into the very traditional format of country music, and he came up with something completely different

Since the dawn of recorded music, every generation has felt shocked by the musical tastes of the next.

One of the reasons we survive as a band is that we are seen as a band of today. We don't want to be seen as a band that tours and plays old songs. We feel that we are making the best music of our careers.

A lot of people see electronic music as a flavor of the week, but it can be more than that - has to be more than that.

There's a lot of music at my fingertips that I can be influenced by. And just because I play a horn, I don't need to sound, or try to capture, what was happening before me. I can just respect it and learn from it.

Late 20th century music was a really important thing. It changed the world, and I'm part of that, and now I'm part of the museum that celebrates that.

With the Stray Cats at least, we really took the music somewhere else. First, we wrote our own songs. That's a real weak point in modern classics if you do rockabilly or blues.

They have all different names for music. I think the music I'm going to change the style with is going to be really, really big-years and years after I'm gone.

I started to work up in my old bedroom, playing, writing songs, and it somehow came to me that I could introduce soul music. Nobody seemed to be doing that.

When Kenny first came to me, I think he was thinking of making a nice little folk record, but in my opinion, folk music had come to an end and I felt he needed to go to the next step, the next generation.

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.

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