Danny Carey Quotes

It's amazing to me to see how bands evolve and how they take all their influences and come up with their own sound.

Everybody in Lynyrd Skynyrd loves different styles of music, and our minds are very open when it comes to writing our songs and making the band true to what the band is, but also stepping out and doing something current.

I wanted to make good records. But my problem is I've got a low boredom threshold, so I wanted it to look and sound different with each album, which is really tantamount to suicide, cause people lose it, they lose it - they say: 'I like that, and that's not this.'

I'm not really allowed to talk about the Dead though. I think when we are at our best, we definitely do things that the Dead or no other band could do. We explore things and take things to the extreme.

I love music, that it changes so much, but I also want to keep a bit of the country roots to make it country. I don't want to go too far away from it, or I would do pop music.

In the past, I tried to be more of a typical session guitarist. I wasn't so concerned with impressing anybody.

The music that I've made in the past has had strong contemporary country roots, but I think moving on in music, I will branch out from that a bit.

I never thought of us as a punk band, a metal band, or a new wave band. Just as a band band.

I study what's happening in music. I want to sound different than everybody else.

Coming up, a lot of people I looked up to had a signature sound, but I came up, and I was always in search of one, trying to find it, trying to create one. I was never really able to have a creative signature sound, you know?

I think that, as well as Strapping Young Lad kind of having the name for themselves based on brutality and aggression, I think there's also something to be said to the fact that every Strapping record is different. They're all different.

One of our biggest pet peeves is listening to bands that use harmony guitars for the sake of it. If you can't figure out how do something different than Maiden, UFO, or even Boston, then what's the point?

I made 'Desert Moon' and when I made those solo albums, I was trying not to be Styx, because I thought, 'That belongs to us.' So, I made different kinds of solo albums that were not dipping my hand back into the magic Styx jar and pulling out all the tricks - because bands, they have tricks, don't they? That's what makes them different.

We consolidated the style of 4Minute by experimenting with different sounds throughout the years.

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.

Branching out to other genres - I think it's why people put me apart from other guitar instrumentalists.

I just want to be a part of a band that will be able to reinvent themselves, you know.

I'm trying to change the root of funk, trying to make it more progressive, more melodic and more lyrically structured.

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.

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.

Progressive music probably wouldn't even really exist if not for the people of the United States having picked up on it and nurtured it in the way they did. It really is an American form of music in the sense that it was nurtured here. So it belongs here. It has become part of the fabric of American musical culture.

But I've come to the point in my evolution on the instrument where I realize that I can't play the same stuff that just a guitar player or organ player would play - and I need to embrace that in a big way.

I made records in the past that are as traditional as any other country records that have been made, but at the same time the records have a contemporary slant on it too.

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.