Billy Sheehan Quotes

I think that every band tries to mature their sound through their existence, you know?

Most good things happen with time; especially music, which needs time to breathe and to find its own way.

You have to grow with the music.

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

Music is all about wanting to be better at it.

I've seen and learned enough to keep my music fresh and spread 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.

There's been a progression in my sound.

It started off with me being all the way influenced by Atlanta and southern music but I knew my sound had to grow - I started learning melodies.

Music is a continuous process. You evolve with every song.

Your experience of life is to a large part distilled into your performing. As you grow older, you concentrate on aspects of music that you perhaps only touched on earlier.

Compared to other bands that have gone off the deep end with their sound, you know, I'm very confident. I did not go off the deep end; it just improved.

Every record, you've got more experiences to draw on as a writer and a musician.

I can see that if this was an album done 10 or 15 years ago we could see we were moving on to some place else.

You're a constant student, as a musician.

What I was going for in the first two albums I didn't necessarily achieve. Because I was young and because it was my first time out. And the second album was such a 'quickie' sort of 'Let's just get it over with!' But the kind of music I make, there's a lot of subtlety in it. And I think it takes a couple of listens to actually really get it.

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.

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'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.

There are a lot of people holding on to the old Jessie J - whatever that means - but I think there's a lot more people realizing what I'm about. I think people like it.

Younger players in this music often turn out to be middle aged; it is not a young music.

I think one of the great things about being a musician is that you never stop learning.

I like it when songs develop in some way. Four minutes usually isn't enough time for something to develop musically.

If my musical tastes are continuing to grow up, and I am not really too interested in the music that my kids listen to, then I assume that the audience is doing the same.

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.