Charles Hazlewood Quotes

Music is changing. I'm just doing what I'm doing, and hopefully in the next 20, 30 years, some kids can take what I'm doing and change it again. If the music doesn't move, then it's dead.

Music is constantly developing and changing.

I am optimistic about the future of music.

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

Some people just don't want to see change, but thankfully there are a lot of people more optimistic for something new in music, even with the bigger picture like with Obama getting elected.

Progressive music probably wouldn't even really exist if not for the people of the United States having picked up on it and nurtured it in the way they did. It really is an American form of music in the sense that it was nurtured here. So it belongs here. It has become part of the fabric of American musical culture.

They have all different names for music. I think the music I'm going to change the style with is going to be really, really big-years and years after I'm gone.

In music, as I find myself forever saying, things don't get better or worse: they evolve and transform themselves.

I think that Yes' music is kind of on its own out there, and it goes through different chapters, and that involves different people. I don't think it's a case of 'any year is better than any other.' They can all co-exist quite comfortably.

Music in general is looking for something new overall.

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.

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

Music has to change. I don't want to stay the same forever.

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

Since music is a reflection of our mindset and our culture, it is bound to change with time. I am glad that India is such a receiving country and is always open to all kinds of music. Our composers, singers and writers are open to experimenting.

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.

I'm not giving up my history and what I've done in my music because I love it and I'm very proud of it. I just want to open it up for more people.

The reflection of the world is blues, that's where that part of the music is at. Then you got this other kind of music that's tryin' to come around.

First, it doesn't surprise me that traditional music has experienced a kind of exhaustion in the 20th century - not forgetting that many musicians started to look outside the traditional structures of tonality.

The older ideas are rendering more and more bland music.

Since the dawn of recorded music, every generation has felt shocked by the musical tastes of the next.

No matter how long you play rock n roll songs might change just as the balls are there, the rock balls. And that's what's important to us.

The whole path of American music has been so much about the recognition of stylistic diversity, and the recognition of the importance of music which was from one of the vernacular traditions.

I think there have to be Bachs and Beethovens. We may have - there are so many more people. Musical training is available to so many more, but it may be that we've hit a right wall in terms of accessible styles and since we demand innovation as a criterion of genius, there may not be more innovative styles to be found.

Music changes, and I'm gonna change right along with it.