Vance Joy Quotes

Since age seven, I've been composing and have never stopped composing, yet, the creative process is as elusive to me as it has ever been.

I'm forever learning and that's why I'm always able to create new styles and new dimensions of hip-hop.

Designers and musicians are primed to keep thinking forward. Once an album or collection launches, you can only think about doing the next one.

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

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

To passively get up and play a bunch of old songs wouldn't have really motivated us. So we are bringing the new material into the set and it goes down really well.

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.

I think most producers and MCs are constantly in this competition, but it's usually with yourself. It's usually wanting to be innovative: wanting to catch yourself when you're doing the same thing or throwing out the same art you've already done.

You can't help but have ideas when you're inspired musically.

When some artistes give a hit song, they keep repeating themselves in the same genre. I always try to create something new.

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

You could say that everything the musicians have learned and known over the years, all of their technical resources, are in a dialogue with the things they are discovering every time, as if it was the first time.

I am optimistic about the future of music.

I love originating shows and originating songs - there is nothing better than being the first one to get to do a song.

It is not about writing those hits again. I am sure I could write them, but it is about the sensibilities.

I still picture myself as a student of the music. I'm always trying to learn new things. Music is just what makes me tick.

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.

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

Nothing pleases me more than to go into a room and come out with a piece of music.

I just want to keep making music, recording and trying different things. I don't want to do the same thing all the time.

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

Never try to make the same record twice, even when people are screaming for the same sound.

I have a curiosity that compels me to find ways to make music that are fresh and new.

The little dissatisfaction which every artist feels at the completion of a work forms the germ of a new work.

I just play, and I'm always trying to write songs.