Jason Molina Quotes

I don't ever try to make a song better than my last song. I just try to make it different from my last one.

What I want to happen is to be really creative, and to play something new in the improvisations, every time.

One has to draw upon one's own musical thoughts and one's own musical acumen, and not to be afraid to let that come into one's work. Perhaps that comes with more experience, but perhaps it also comes with daring, and believing that you should.

I've been really trying to hone the art of songwriting in a way that doesn't follow any sort of guideline.

I wasn't trying to sound like anybody else. Basically, I was just experimenting all over the place.

Every movie you score you hope is unlike anything you have done before. You are always trying to not sound like yourself.

A lot of singers find a musical genre people like and stick with it. That's being a conformist. I sing ballads, rock, salsa, rap.

Don't worry about what others say about your music. Pursue whatever you are hearing... but if everybody really hates your music maybe you could try some different approaches.

What's cool about indie rock is that one band can do effectively the same thing as another band, and one band nails it, and the other one doesn't. I like that elusiveness.

I try to do things that keep me interested. And play music that moves me. I like to move around and play in a lot of different ways.

But I've always liked to be the kind of drummer and musician who likes to go outside of what's expected of me, and I've always been able to do more than you necessarily hear with every band I've ever played in.

I'm definitely a risk-taker with my music.

No two people on earth are alike, and it's got to be that way in music or it isn't music.

As an artist, you never want to write the same song again, you always want to challenge yourself to writing in a different way.

Any good music must be an innovation.

A lot of songs are derivative of each other. Sometimes you need to take a departure from what you do to something that's slightly different in order to get inspiration.

What is nice about country music today is that most artists are not trying to do something everybody else is doing. They really are trying to develop their own uniqueness.

I feel like my music has become a lot of things. It's hard to label the evolution, but I like there to be an evolution. I just like to paint with all different kinds of colors.

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

I think the people who are saying jazz has to sound a particular way, or, 'What you're doing isn't jazz,' are just scared because they can't do it. A lot of them just aren't talented enough to do anything new, honestly.

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 like to experiment when it comes to music.

I just like blending all the genres together but blending them up in a good way. I try to be as free as I can with it.

The rule is to try and never play the same thing twice when you have the freedom to do that in the song.

When you say, 'Man, what kind of music does Outkast make?' You be like, 'They make Outkast music.' What kind of music does N.E.R.D. make? They make N.E.R.D. music. I want to be one of those people, because there's so many layers to the music I create that I don't want people to expect me to do one thing.