Dusty Hill Quotes

I have a soft spot for 'Wind of Change' because it was my first one, and it was a departure from Humble Pie - very much so. It showed me the spectrum of what I could do.

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 think to stay in one sound is a career killer.

We built something very special with Gaslight, and we don't want to mess with that sound too much. But I've always wanted to do a record where I can put strings or organs or pianos or whatever on it.

It's like with me, I feel like I was never one of those rappers that, you know, stayed in one time warp.

If there's only one genre that it's possible to listen to or possible to see live, then how can you explore different styles? How can you evolve, musically?

'Waking the Fallen' truly encompasses everything that Avenged Sevenfold was at that time. It was us being fearless, us showing our roots in heavy metal, punk, rock n' roll, and not being afraid to try everything under the sun when it comes to writing music.

The first five albums I did, I tried a little bit of everything. I was trying not to conform at all.

When you keep the caliber of musicians very high in the band, people are going to come and go. Some of them will be people who have to try various things, it's natural.

In a way, that's always been Yes' history to a large extent! Quite a few occasions when we've had a new band member or change in members, then we've done a new album with new chops and refreshed the musical approach.

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

I will go through these style phases. I think it's confusing in some ways. People like bands to be really consistent.

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.

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

From my time in 'King Crimson,' I'd describe a Progressive band as one that keeps trying to break musical barriers, and keeps trying to do new music.

I can't see myself just endlessly singing the same songs over and over again.

Now U2's not my favorite band, but I do respect them, and in the same way I respect Bowie: They change without fear of change.

I think what the story of Yes has been is we've wandered in and out of different styles over the years.

In a way, I pattern myself after all the bands I used to like as a kid. Every time they put out LPs, they had a whole new look and a new sound.

I definitely try to broaden the scope of music. I don't know if it's pop or classical or what, but I'm religiously challenging myself all the time, for better or for worse.

With our first two records we backed ourselves into a hole musically.

It's a very subjective, personal, instinctive approach as musicians of saying, 'We don't want to replace what's around; we just want to widen the possibilities.'

I've done so many hip-hop albums already I got tired of just hip-hop.

One of the things that always was Fall Out Boy was trying new things and kind of pushing ourselves in different directions.

What I appreciate about Sleater-Kinney is that we did six records, and they all felt different. It was a band that was able to encapsulate different sensibilities because we were focusing on it as music and art and not as a statement.