Shreya Ghoshal Quotes

I'm very much a traditionalist, but I think it's important to know about tradition so that you can evolve the music you are deciding to make.

Music is always gonna change; it's just a matter of keeping up with the times.

I've realised that if it is to remain relevant, contemporary music needs to change.

And I'm interested in writing music that takes risks. My point is that maybe the term EDM is pinned on me and my buddies, but maybe it'll be less so if I experiment.

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.

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.

Time will change and with it music will too. Our speed has changed, clothes have changed, food habits have changed, so why should music remain the same?

We have a duty towards music, namely, to invent it.

You're always in a different headspace when you make each record, so hopefully they're all different. You just pick up things that you wish you hadn't done on the first one.

Music is a continuum and the modern and avant-garde composers of today will be part of the standard repertoire 30 years from now.

I've done so many hip-hop albums already I got tired of just hip-hop.

Music in general is looking for something new overall.

My music, my whole approach to the synthesizer has completely changed now.

There's been a progression in my sound.

I could write songs about politics, but I'm conscious of not writing songs that sound the same as the ones I wrote 30 years ago.

I feel like David Byrne is a great example of someone who is always in the 'now' moment of music and finding reasons to be excited and always seeing what's special about it.

I think every time, before we do an album, we have a discussion where we sort of consider the idea of doing something radically different.

I'm constantly evolving as a musician.

People get caught up in recreating something, and that actually hurts the genre of music because there's nothing new.

There are people who will always want the genre, whatever it is, to stay traditional, to stay what it was like when you were 15 years old, but I just don't think music does that. Music is always changing and evolving, just like us as people.

I just wanna make more music, legit music as opposed to keeping the same constant thing. I wanna show growth in the music, pretty much.

I feel like when you listen to music, it's almost like the same thing over and over, but of course as time goes on, rappers evolve, lyrical play evolves.

I guess with any type of music or any art, there's always an evolution.

If you look at the difference between the first Clash record and 'Combat Rock,' what an evolution.

I've always been very progressive and as much as I play Old World music, I have this progressive tenacity to keep adding futuristic elements in subtle ways where you won't notice.