Jonathan Davis Quotes

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.

I am optimistic about the future of music.

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.

I don't see that there are any particular changes in popular music.

You have got to make new music, that is the way that I look at it anyway.

Any good music must be an innovation.

What is nice about country music today is that most artists are not trying to do something everybody else is doing. They really are trying to develop their own uniqueness.

I think a lot of people came into rock n' roll to try to change the world. I came into rock n' roll to make music.

Music is the most important thing. I'm thinking of my future. There has to be something new, and I want to be part of it. I want to lead an orchestra with excellent musicians. I want to play music which draws pictures of the world and its space

Since age seven, I've been composing and have never stopped composing, yet, the creative process is as elusive to me as it has ever been.

Musical revolutions, I don't know how many I've been through.

Country music has to evolve in order to survive.

If music leaves any impression at all, it does so without regard to stylistic issues.

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.

I happened to come along in the music business when there was no trend.

I'm continuing to learn more about music - it's an ocean, and you can never really say that you know everything. I'm grateful that I'm still living and making music among the greats.

If it's a good song and it fits me, that's what I'm going to do, I'm not out there trying to change the world. I'm just out there trying to sing country music the best way I can.

Everyone I talk to says stuff like, 'Music sucks today,' and I'm going to try and change all that.

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.

I'm always looking to create new avenues or new visions of music.

The absolute transformation of everything that we ever thought about music will take place within 10 years, and nothing is going to be able to stop it. I see absolutely no point in pretending that it's not going to happen. I'm fully confident that copyright, for instance, will no longer exist in 10 years.

To keep creating something with this type of music, you have to take it out of the box.

In Atlanta, there's no limitation to where you can take your music. You can be as creative as you want to be.

As a songwriter, you tend to develop your own style, your own technique, based around what it is you're trying to write and perform, in terms of your own music. So a way of evolving a guitar style as a songwriter is much easier, I think, than developing a true style of your own just from listening to music or playing other people's music.

Just the type of music that was around at the same time as I was writing. Some of it was wicked, definitely. But there was just one direction which I thought could be pushed that no one was pushing.