Tom Jenkinson Quotes

If you're not changing what you're doing and exploring different parts of your musical output, I think you're slowly dying.

I do not think that music keeps evolving. It evolved through Bach; since then, in my humble opinion, all the innovations added nothing.

I am certain that most composers today would consider today's music to be rich, not to say confusing, in its enormous diversity of styles, technical procedures, and systems of esthetics.

There is a terrible conservatism, like a cancer, right in the heartlands of music-making, a tremendous resistance to change, an absolute horror of the idea that more people might connect with music. That infuriates me more than I can say.

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.

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

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.

When Kenny first came to me, I think he was thinking of making a nice little folk record, but in my opinion, folk music had come to an end and I felt he needed to go to the next step, the next generation.

If you look at a lot of the songs I've been involved in, there's always been this retro vibe. I started getting worried that I wasn't moving forward very much, nor was I even in tune with the music today. I almost scoffed at it.

I love that sense of change that you'd get in pop music every three minutes, every four minutes.

But, on the other hand, if Schubert were alive today, he would find even richer fields to plow.

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 had to make different kinds of music for everybody but still keep it classic T-Pain at the same time.

Music in general is looking for something new overall.

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.

None of my songs sound the same. None of them. I take R&B beats and put it as a rap song or hip-hop beats and put them as a R&B song. A lot of people are boring. I don't like boring music. Everybody sounds the same, like they copying.

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

The only intention I've ever had creatively, as a musician, is to be as different from myself as possible.

Nothing I'm doing musically is revolutionary in any way, shape, or form.

I don't want to write the same song over and over again.

It's all about the balance. For musicians, me personally, you just can't keep doing covers or mash-ups. It would get old pretty fast.

Once I write something, I never try to write that same style again, because I get very schizophrenic musically.

If you take your last album & try to copy it, then thats sure to hell the way to stagnation. And that makes me bored...and if I'm bored then the music is boring and so are the band!

New music? Hell, there's been no new music since Stravinsky.

I think the music that I'm writing and the stuff I'm going to do as I age will age.