David Draiman Quotes

Any project that I put out, I never want it to sound like the first one. It can have some vibes or stuff that matches, but I want it to be growth, progression, and you can't be comfortable when you're growing. If it feels good and it sounds good, it's good.

When you stop doing something, it doesn't mean you are rejecting the previous work. That's the mistake; it's not rejecting it, it's saying, 'I have exploited it enough now and I wish to take a look at another corner.'

I've had to keep exploring different ways of presenting the music so I don't repeat myself.

Something that has been important to me is never to repeat myself, never to go back.

My whole artistic life has always been about change, change, change, move on, move on. It's the only thing I find interesting.

I'm not interested in re-creating the same blues I love so much. I'm interested in pushing boundaries.

I was so young when I started, my taste has changed and developed, and I've gone from being a little bit safe to trying different things.

It would have been easy to try to make 'Opus Eponymous II' and just stick with a routine. But it just felt like, if this is going to go anywhere, we need to take big steps every time.

Because we are four creative people - four writers - there was no way that we were ever going to be satiated doing the same thing over and again. Change was inevitable for us. And a very natural thing.

If you stick with one sound and one way of working, how will you ever progress?

I wouldn't want to make the same record over and over again or look the same or be the same. I think that's just human life in general, though.

The element of change has been the thing, really. We put out the first one, then the second... then a third LP totally different from them. It's the reason we were able to keep it together.

I think I've always been slightly addicted to not repeating myself. When you're doing something the first time around, it's often the best time. I think 'Blank Project' is about carrying on. Its that thing where you're making something because you have to, but you don't know how or why.

I'm not an artist, and I want to take risks, and when the possibility of failure occurs, it's because the idea is all exciting or interesting as a high wire act, and sometimes you've got to fall off, just by virtue of the fact that you're constantly trying to evolve and do new things.

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.

I do not like to repeat successes, I like to go on to other things.

You can't just play the same thing, over and over again.

Without deviation progress is not possible.

I always try to do something different. I don't think I've made the same record over and over.

My intentions with any of my music is to keep it futuristic and updated and be experimental and try new things.

The worst thing you can do as an artist is to repeat yourself.

I think we always move from imitation to assimilation to innovation, but I can't name you 20 people outside those we've already recognized who ever got to point three: innovation.

If you do the same thing every night, that's the death of music.

Every time, I try to make something different.

I always believe in doing new things and using new materials that I have never used or that I didn't like for a long time.