Hiromi Uehara Quotes

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.

Music has to keep moving. But I was lucky. For me there was always something around the corner.

In music, as I find myself forever saying, things don't get better or worse: they evolve and transform themselves.

There are people who will always want the genre, whatever it is, to stay traditional, to stay what it was like when you were 15 years old, but I just don't think music does that. Music is always changing and evolving, just like us as people.

Music has to change. I don't want to stay the same forever.

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.

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

Me and Jerry left because we felt we weren't getting anywhere playing our old songs in tiny clubs. The group was getting stale and staying behind the times.

Our approach makes it so if you hear a said song of ours in 2003 and then you hear it again in 2009 it's probably evolved and changed a good bit, and hopefully for the better.

If you look at a lot of the songs I've been involved in, there's always been this retro vibe. I started getting worried that I wasn't moving forward very much, nor was I even in tune with the music today. I almost scoffed at it.

Music should be pushed forward.

I think people just have to realize that music grows, and hip-hop evolves. I mean, everything evolves.

Prince, you never knew what to expect from him from one album to the next. Miles Davis was like that. You know, once you get used to one style, boom, he switched it and, you know, switched gears on you. So those artists are very exciting to me, very exciting to follow their path, you know, and their journey.

Music is always gonna change; it's just a matter of keeping up with the times.

Music is constantly developing and changing.

My music is constantly changing because I am. I'm writing it and changing as I'm writing.

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

If you go out and just play the old stuff and never write new stuff, you're not really a complete musician, you're a performer.

The whole thing about 'progressive R&B' blows my mind. Black music has always been progressive.

It's a great honor when somebody takes your song and does something different with it. That's what music is all about: to constantly change what somebody else has done.

It's like, how do you continue to make records that are representative of who you are that your fans will recognize as your band, while still trying to push things forward and present new sounds for people.

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

I do not think that music keeps evolving. It evolved through Bach; since then, in my humble opinion, all the innovations added nothing.

If our history can challenge the next wave of musicians to keep moving and changing, to keep spiritually hungry and horny, that's what it's all about.

A song has a life of its own. It's an autonomous thing, separate from your own experience, almost. And the mere repetition of it means it's subject to change; it means approaching it differently, expressing different emotional aspects of it. It doesn't feel like wallowing.