Ted Dwane Quotes

I've been making music for a long time, since I was very young, but at the same time, I'm still exploring what works for me. I feel like I'm just starting out.

I feel like bands should be growing, living, functioning entities and to crystallize a band into a single album, and for that to be a touchstone - I understand it from a fan's perspective but I also feel like it's a little bit misleading in terms of the way bands actually function.

My favorite artists are the ones that I can take their eight or ten albums, and I can see the arc of their life.

I think that the only goals that we try to set for ourselves is to evolve musically.

People always want to talk about who I was, but I've always been singing, always been experimenting with pop music.

It's amazing to me to see how bands evolve and how they take all their influences and come up with their own sound.

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.

On 'Heartbreaker,' I had to sing those songs. I drank the way I did those songs. I ate the way I did those songs. I communicated the way I did those songs. With 'Gold,' I was trying to prove something to myself. I wanted to invent a modern classic.

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.

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.

Each album has its own cycle. We wanted to capture all those feelings and moments for this touring cycle.

My come-out record, '10 Day,' was the thing people were supposed to hear and figure out 'he's good' or 'he's not good.' 'Acid Rap' is the comeback tape, and it asks way bigger and better questions than, 'Is he good at rapping?'

Yeah, I put out some goofy stuff. I had no idea who I was as an artist at all before 'Posse on Broadway.'

Traffic' was an album that had a significant amount of songs. It was not complete and I felt didn't fully represent me as a person or as the artist I want to be and so when I started the writing process for 'The Autobiography' I was really turning a corner in my life.

When I wrote my debut album I was around 17, I didn't really know what my sound was or who I was and what I wanted.

I just think that there is something that keeps us together, to keep doing what we're doing. I can't really put my finger on it other than each record is like a little snapshot of my life at that particular moment, the way I play, the way I sound, the way I wrote, the way I sing, I can hear it.

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

You could say, 'Oh, we're gonna write the heaviest album of all time' or 'We're gonna write an album that sounds like 'Iowa.'' Even if we set out to try to do so, it would never compare. We're not those people anymore, we're not that band anymore.

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.

For us, our musical journey has just been a progression. We're not trying to grow up too fast or anything, and I'm saying that even coming from being married. For us, we're growing up with our audience.

All my albums are evolutions, one on top of the other.

I think there is quite a continuity over my 25 years of doing music, and I'm always trying to break away from it.

Each album we [The Replacements] made was the one we were capable of making and wanted to make at the time. Each one was a progression or, depending on your opinion, a sidestep or tumble forward. I don't know what.

Music is a work in progress. On a record, it gets frozen in time. And it's oddly unnatural.

On 'Van Halen,' I was a young punk, and everything revolved around the fastest kid in town, gunslinger attitude. But I'd say that at the time of 'Fair Warning,' I started concentrating more on songwriting. But I guess in most people's minds I'm just a gunslinger.