Joe Bonamassa Quotes

Any good music must be an innovation.

I am optimistic about the future of music.

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

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

Music in general is looking for something new overall.

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

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

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

You need the past as a guideline. The history of music is a good basis, but to escape that stuff, that tortuous rulebook, you have to learn it first. It's kind of like religion - once you've written the Bible, that's it, move on.

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

Music is always changing and the changes are unpredictable.

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.

We always want to do covers, but we found it kind of boring to do covers of bands in our genre, and we were always asked to do those.

It's all about the balance. For musicians, me personally, you just can't keep doing covers or mash-ups. It would get old pretty fast.

In hip-hop, what you have is you have a lot of formulaic-type bands or rappers that come up. They saw something on the radio, and they want to mimic that formula. And that's just boring. I don't wanna record something just to make money; I want to record something to enjoy it and have fun because I'm a music lover.

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 don't ever try to make a song better than my last song. I just try to make it different from my last one.

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.

You'll find little schools of musicians experimenting with different ways of making music in Brooklyn, all through Manhattan, in Queens, in Jersey, you know? The city is still bubbling with creativity.

Like many musicians, I don't look back much... only concentrate on what music I'm doing, and occasionally look ahead.

I'm definitely a risk-taker with my music.

Hip hop is doing the new rock thing; there are no rules. They can do anything, really. And that's inspiring.

People think that when they're playing it safe, they're trying to preserve what they have, but there is no preservation of what you have in music. There's no safety in music.