Keith Sweat Quotes

Country music has to evolve in order to survive.

What I do know is rock and roll and metal never goes away, ever. It took the back seat in America in the '90s. In Japan and South America, it was still really big. I never followed trends, so I don't know the exact function of them.

I think the 'R&B singer' title came from me entering the business at a time when R&B chick singers were the trend. I was fine with that, but I have a lot more to offer.

It really is, to see that this kind of music is still so popular.

The music is going to die if you don't tap into something that people today can relate to.

Rock in the mainstream culture has lost a lot of its mojo.

In the 1970s, for all the Stevie Wonders, I'm sure there were five artists that were making forgettable music.

I remember that in '81, country radio was pretty pop, and everybody wanted a crossover record - and all of a sudden it came back to traditional. Now it's kind of swung the other way a little bit, but it always comes back.

I called the album 'The Chemo' because it seems like the industry and music overall is dying slowly.

There's always people saying that rock is dead, rock is over. People are always out to kill rock and roll.

The industry is always changing, but country music is like a force that always comes back.

We've been gone five years and the best they could come up with was boy bands?

Years ago, I wanted to be like the girl Ne-Yo. You know, with the mid-tempo ballads - I come from the Babyface era. But that's not trendy; that's not hip-hop.

I don't think rock 'n' roll is necessarily a young man's game.

Pop music has progressed.

If you're in pop music, you've got to deal with the changing of the guard every few years. By the time the '70s arrived, I was well aware of the cyclical nature of the game. Pop music is a creature of the moment; it thrives on the mood of its time. Either you hook into that or you're not going to be part of it.

Rock became an incredible commercial success, people just became bored with serious music, and it was forgotten.

Old music is the same as new music - it's just a different way of delivering it.

Why would heavy metal ever go away?

The game is changing with songs like 'Earned It' as opposed to it changing me.

I don't think country music needs saving from anything.

I think rock 'n' roll, in a way, has been dead for a long time.

Music's always going to evolve, and we can't really stop that, so we have to figure out what's the next thing and how we move towards that as opposed to just being like, 'Oh, cool: let's just continue making tear-out EDM hits that are gonna last 2 months, and then somebody else is making the exact same thing under a different name.'

Rhythm and blues used to be called race music. ... This music was going on for years, but nobody paid any attention to it.

We gotta let hip-hop grow. We gotta let it go through its different phases throughout the different places that's accepting it.