David Draiman Quotes

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 wouldn't say I'm changing myself to find a new audience. It's about growing, trying new things. There's a whole other world out there that doesn't know who Prince Royce is.

Towards the end with Pantera - although I was never unhappy with the music we were making - it became one-dimensional, and we wanted to open things back up.

I'm just expanding my sound and making it bigger.

Our music is becoming more mature.

We always try to make each record a snapshot of the band at that time.

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

The whole 'Djesse' project is, like, the paramount example of something that has evolved alongside me creating it. It started as one album, and then I realized that I had too many ideas for just one album.

After my second-to-last record, 'The Greatest', I had gone on tour for a while, and I didn't play an instrument for about five years. And I got kind of - it's not self-esteem or whatever, or anger toward myself - but disappointed in myself that I hadn't been challenging myself to learn musically.

You continue to evolve with each album that goes by and, as an artist, you continue to expand with every recording project.

The more I compose, the more I know that I don't know it all. I think it's a good way to start. If you think you know it all, the work becomes a repetition of what you've already done. I try to make sure that I don't repeat my music.

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.

I got a chance to work with Miles Davis, and that changed everything for me, 'cause Miles really encouraged all his musicians to reach beyond what they know, go into unknown territory and explore. It's made a difference to me and the decisions that I've made over the years about how to approach a project in this music.

What I'm hoping is that every album I'm going to do will give my audience something different, and that they'll grow as I do.

I want to be the kind of artist who keeps pushing on every album. I don't want to settle on a sound.

You can't stay the same. If you're a musician and a singer, you have to change, that's the way it works.

I don't wanna be known as just a hip-hop artist. I wanna take it to a whole 'nother level.

With us, people caught on to something on our third album, and that will never be repeated. Basically, I don't really have any complaints about the way that Beach House has grown. I feel like we're still in control of what we're doing, and it's a great time in our existence.

And this whole period of time of gradually working at being a better guitar player and songwriter have gradually led me to the point where I feel I'm doing a clearer representation of the thing that I've been feeling inside me since I was four years old.

One of the things that always was Fall Out Boy was trying new things and kind of pushing ourselves in different directions.

There's been a progression in my sound.

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

What I appreciate about Sleater-Kinney is that we did six records, and they all felt different. It was a band that was able to encapsulate different sensibilities because we were focusing on it as music and art and not as a statement.

I think all of our records are a progression of some sort.

I've gone through many phases in music in my life. Before I was signed, I was making completely different music, and my fan base has followed me. They continue to follow me as the music progresses and as I grow as an artist. As long as I stay true and don't pretend to be someone I'm not, I hope they'll come along with it.