Dusty Hill Quotes

Every album is unto itself, so whatever sounds we need to come up with, like way back when, we needed horns. So we invented the Lone Wolf Horns, and we learned how to play horns.

Since music is a reflection of our mindset and our culture, it is bound to change with time. I am glad that India is such a receiving country and is always open to all kinds of music. Our composers, singers and writers are open to experimenting.

I love all Yes music and love to play it live, but I'm most interested in making new music with Yes.

I think that certainly, whenever you have a new band, the first record always has a certain energy to it before you know what you're doing. I think some of the early Sonic Youth stuff was maybe like that.

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

I'm the renegade of funk. I've made house, techno, rock, funk, reggae... That's why I've been on so many different labels.

So dance music is now pop music. So now, as a dance producer, what do I have to do? So I'm starting to do alien music, because pop is not pop anymore; we need to go alien to be independent.

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

Of course, we didn't survive to play all the way through the '90s, so I can say that - as I said, everybody in the band was aware of this, and we trying to figure out ways to make it different.

Once I started working with generative music in the 1970s, I was flirting with ideas of making a kind of endless music - not like a record that you'd put on, which would play for a while and finish.

I'm influenced by a lot of different genres of music. So I'm constantly trying to rework production and make things interesting in the live show and on records.

With Escape the Fate, I was pushing for synths and keyboards and stuff, and everybody was in disagreement with that. They didn't want to do that.

The music I used to make was a lot more rock, so I come from this background of head banging a lot, and it took me a while to figure out how to do it in the context of our music.

If we found an ashtray in the studio, we'd try to play it and find a part for it in a song.

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

Obviously, you want to honour the sound of your music, but I'm definitely open to trying new things and making myself use a different palette of sounds.

The thing is that when I'm making music, I'm not really chasing that sound - the Atlanta sound that we hear a lot.

I think the '70s was a much healthier period for music because people were more innovative and creative.

I wanted to try a different way of making music. That's what made me try different things with my voice.

Argo' was a very exciting project for me because I knew that I could mix together influences from my youth as a young musician and a young composer.

I always want to keep moving musically and trying new things.

I think we are really in touch with what's going on around us in the world of music, trying to push the bar forward and try new and exciting things that our fans can react to.

Brainfeeder makes me want to keep generating better music.

Bjork for sure. Definitely, I would like to do like something with Tommy Genesis, too. There's a lot of people actually.