Mark Fisher Quotes

Music in general is looking for something new overall.

If you look at these bands like The Beatles, they did something that was new for that time, whether it was shocking or just a new direction that they were going.

It's like, how do you continue to make records that are representative of who you are that your fans will recognize as your band, while still trying to push things forward and present new sounds for people.

As a musician, I look for certain things that stimulate me. And what I look for is something that's an evolution on a particular genre that I never heard before.

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

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.

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

Pop music has been exhausted. The innocence has been exhausted. I think we've lost the ability to be blown away by music.

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.

Music is always gonna change; it's just a matter of keeping up with the times.

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

Music is constantly developing and changing.

With every album that I do, I try to feature a new instrument or sound.

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.

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

I think music has gone through a period of something very severe, rather radical, rather the way painting did with cubism.

So many of the sounds that contemporary composers were trying to create were to be found in the traditional musics of the world. That was encouraging but also little daunting to think that you had to work so hard to be new and yet it was old.

The reflection of the world is blues, that's where that part of the music is at. Then you got this other kind of music that's tryin' to come around.

First, it doesn't surprise me that traditional music has experienced a kind of exhaustion in the 20th century - not forgetting that many musicians started to look outside the traditional structures of tonality.

I'd say that it's important for music to be there that gives you a challenge, that rearranges things in your head.

And I'm always interested when other musicians are trying to discover new worlds of sound.

Everything was so fresh and unique to us - it was a whole new world of music. Michael Jackson was so fresh, you know? We could approach it with such fresh ears, which wouldn't be possible if we had been listening to it when we were younger.

How did this or that change my music? The only time I have to think about it is when an interviewer asks me that.

I tried to take heavy metal... and balled it up and chopped it in half and really tried to create a new form of energy. I really tried to re-shape extreme music as I see it through my eyes.

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.