Mark Foster Quotes

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.

As far as long-term goals, one of my favorite artists ever is Tegan and Sara, because every single one of their albums sounds different. Or Beck. I want to be like that because I come from so many different types of musical backgrounds.

I think to stay in one sound is a career killer.

Growing up in Miami, having these different cultures and being inspired in so many ways musically has let me have a very long career, 'cause just when you think I'm gonna do this type of record, I go and do something else.

I always loved bands who would try to change their sound radically album to album, experiment in one album and revert back in another.

I think it's really important to show new styles of song and music. I think that's what people want to see and hear from me.

One thing I love about Lady Gaga is I feel like her sound is always evolving and changing with her and her phases of life.

I just wanna make more music, legit music as opposed to keeping the same constant thing. I wanna show growth in the music, pretty much.

Every movie you score you hope is unlike anything you have done before. You are always trying to not sound like yourself.

I get bored of music really easily, so I always try and make music that makes sense, but then it's just a little bit wrong.

I always make a point to make my records different. Let's say I have a record that's influenced by hip-hop in an abstract way; for the next record, I'd try not to do that. They are all connected in a personal way but it's important not to repeat myself, because then I can always learn something about myself through my work.

As an artist, you tend to gravitate to the opposite. I know, when I finish a song or an album, I'm interested in doing something completely new. It doesn't always happen, but that's the idea. My poor fans - I don't know if they love that or hate that.

Every record that you do man, is sooo different in every way.

I can't just turn over and sing disco or rock.

I will go through these style phases. I think it's confusing in some ways. People like bands to be really consistent.

I love hip-hop and soul, but I desperately want to challenge it and see what I can bring to it.

I'm a bit multifaceted in the sense that I've got many more than one musical taste. If you think about it, I started out playing in a punk band and ended up doing electro-pop. That was more an accident than a plan.

I've done the country, done the pop-rock, done the super-hard electro.

Whatever I write has to evolve around my taste in music at that moment, because that always changes.

Creating any type of art is all about mood. I've been making extreme music in one fashion or another for decades. And truthfully, Down has a big enough fan base to where I could remain content to do only that, but music is a vast territory and I am an explorer. And I'm a lover of all things considered extreme in music.

The way Yes works is when we have a new member come in, as in Jon Davison, it's appropriate that we see what differences we can get out of a new contributing member in order to keep Yes interesting.

When we started, a lot of bands sounded really different from one another.

You're always going to sound like yourself, but you can make really strong attempts to keep some similarities, but move away from what you did before for popularity's sake.

I've done so many hip-hop albums already I got tired of just hip-hop.

Musicians tend to get bored playing the same thing over and over, so I think it's natural to experiment.