Thomas Bangalter Quotes

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

People forget that, as artists, you are constantly looking to evolve and grow.

We've always done what we do, and we go out and try and get better with each record we make.

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

I feel like I introduce another level of my creative ability on every album.

I would like to look back on my body of work and be proud of each record in its own right, but as a whole, I want to continue to grow and move forward.

Every record I do is a learning process for how I want to do the next one.

As an artist you always want to challenge yourself, but as you get older you want to bring the audience with you while expanding creatively.

As an artist your trajectory just has to keep going up. the thing that subverts your next body of work is the work you've taken before.

I started with straight, basic, symbolic structures. My problem now is the opposite; as I get older, I try to make my paintings more contrapuntal, richer.

With each film, I try to outdo my previous films.

American ballet... is ultimately an evolutionary art form, requiring many voices to creatively carry forward.

I feel like I'm always just trying to write better music and keep topping myself.

Musically, I'm always gonna take it a little farther, and Lord willing, people are gonna get that and understand that: that there's not really one genre I'm trying to be in, but just as a producer, as a writer, as an artist, that I'm planning on going farther.

There'd be no merit to replicating something, to repeating something. As artists and as musicians, you wanna continue to go in different directions and develop.

How do we keep it up? Because that's what we do; we're musicians, and we love to play and make music. And with every album, we get better, and with every tour, we get better.

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

As long as I'm still growing as a musician, it keeps me inspired.

I'm going to keep evolving and evolving and showing people that progression is key when it comes to music.

I think if you're a creative person, then you're always kinda looking to move things along - 'Where else can I go? Where can I take this?' From painters to photographers - anything creative in the arts - if you're a true artist, I think you'll always look to do something else. 'Where else can I go with it?' Do you know what I mean?

There are certain fans who want me to rap about the same exact thing, but it's time to grow up.

There's always a time in any series of work where you get to a certain point and your work is going steadily and each picture is better than the next, and then you sort of level off and that's when you realize that it's not that each picture is better then the next, it's that each picture up's the ante. And that every time you take one good picture, the next one has got to be better.

If my work is accepted, I must move on to the point where it is not.

An artist has got to be constantly in a state of becoming.

As time progressed, my songwriting developed out of my bass, because that's all I could do. I decided to take it as far as it could go and to use my skill as a tool.