Ariel Rechtshaid Quotes

I think that every band tries to mature their sound through their existence, you know?

I think people just have to realize that music grows, and hip-hop evolves. I mean, everything evolves.

It started off with me being all the way influenced by Atlanta and southern music but I knew my sound had to grow - I started learning melodies.

I have a soft spot for 'Wind of Change' because it was my first one, and it was a departure from Humble Pie - very much so. It showed me the spectrum of what I could do.

It's like with me, I feel like I was never one of those rappers that, you know, stayed in one time warp.

I can see that if this was an album done 10 or 15 years ago we could see we were moving on to some place else.

I grew up listening to everything. I have such a love for music, but I don't want to make the same album over and over again.

A lot of times, when a band finds success with a certain style or sound, they have a really hard time breaking away from that to grow as artists.

I feel like bands should be growing, living, functioning entities and to crystallize a band into a single album, and for that to be a touchstone - I understand it from a fan's perspective but I also feel like it's a little bit misleading in terms of the way bands actually function.

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

In a way, I pattern myself after all the bands I used to like as a kid. Every time they put out LPs, they had a whole new look and a new sound.

Our approach makes it so if you hear a said song of ours in 2003 and then you hear it again in 2009 it's probably evolved and changed a good bit, and hopefully for the better.

There's been a progression in my sound.

Gamma was a logical progression after doing the Open Fire record.

'Superunknown' was one of the most dramatic shifts in what we were doing musically. I don't think I realized it at the time.

I really wanted the first record to be different from what I'd done with Genesis, so we were trying to do things in different styles.

One thing I love about Lady Gaga is I feel like her sound is always evolving and changing with her and her phases of life.

You have to grow with the music.

Presenting the American songbook as a living, breathing entity that's expanding all the time is very important.

We're still evolving as a band. I think that's really important for a band to do, especially after being around for so many years.

Music is constantly developing and changing.

Portugal. The Man, to me, doesn't have any real ties. We try to change things up with every album, really progress, and let things happen.

When we did 'Eliminator,' at the time, it was experimental for us. It obviously turned out real successful, but at the time, we caught crap about it from some of our old fans. They thought we were deserting our roots or our old style or whatever.

Each album has a different atmosphere. The third album and Houses of the Holy seem to be the two albums that people didn't get off on quite as strongly as the other ones. But I think they contain the basic ingredients for the further pursuance of what we're doing... the turning point to relieve the tedium of repetition.

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.