Orianthi Quotes

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

My songwriting has evolved, just as I've evolved as a person.

I really started writing music to challenge myself, to see what I could write.

Music is still my main thing, but I will explore anything that's interesting and challenging.

I feel like I introduce another level of my creative ability on every album.

I prefer to think of myself as a musician who is still learning and trying to do something every time out.

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.

The combination of experience and experimentation will ultimately yield a personal sound.

All I ever wanted to do, personally, was bring something new to what I loved: the thing that I loved the most, the music that I loved the most.

I think that the only goals that we try to set for ourselves is to evolve musically.

I do music that makes me happy by challenging myself to go the extra mile and not do what everyone else is doing.

Every record, you've got more experiences to draw on as a writer and a musician.

I think, as an artist, it's very important to continue to be challenged and feel challenged all the time.

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

I've been making music for a long time, since I was very young, but at the same time, I'm still exploring what works for me. I feel like I'm just starting out.

Every artist has to grow, and has to challenge themselves with a new form of expression.

The more I compose, the more I know that I don't know it all. I think it's a good way to start. If you think you know it all, the work becomes a repetition of what you've already done. I try to make sure that I don't repeat my music.

Thomas Dolby is part mad scientist, part nature boy, and entirely moved by the power of music.

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

I think music is a big, big wide world, and I am voyager on this particular ship in this sea of wild music, and I'm gonna dive in and find as many fish as I can and catch them all. I love music.

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

Joining Modest Mouse was just consistent with what I used to do as a teenager: I followed where I thought I would make some interesting music.

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

I feel like a lot of the fundamental material, I've assimilated. So now the question is: Am I going to really get into my spiritual inheritance of music and really develop my abilities?

You're always in a different headspace when you make each record, so hopefully they're all different. You just pick up things that you wish you hadn't done on the first one.