Ryuichi Sakamoto Quotes

I feel like my music has become a lot of things. It's hard to label the evolution, but I like there to be an evolution. I just like to paint with all different kinds of colors.

The only intention I've ever had creatively, as a musician, is to be as different from myself as possible.

Every album that I've attempted, I suppose, has been different - it's bound to be.

I think every album you have to stretch further and further, give people another piece of you. But then I always try to deviate from the norm.

I think that all my albums are different enough where I don't feel like I did this the last time.

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

I wanted to make good records. But my problem is I've got a low boredom threshold, so I wanted it to look and sound different with each album, which is really tantamount to suicide, cause people lose it, they lose it - they say: 'I like that, and that's not this.'

I'll keep evolving and put that into my songs.

Change is always happening. That's one of the wonderful things about jazz music.

It never gets boring for me because there's so many different things to explore in the studio. The studio's become the sanctuary that people have come in and found new things out about themselves, as weird as that sounds. But it's true, I'm no different. I've made some crazy hard records, and I've made a jazz album.

What I'm hoping is that every album I'm going to do will give my audience something different, and that they'll grow as I do.

You're always in a different headspace when you make each record, so hopefully they're all different. You just pick up things that you wish you hadn't done on the first one.

As an artist, you never want to write the same song again, you always want to challenge yourself to writing in a different way.

I'm content with making records, but I don't want to be doing the same thing all the time.

If you went to see me today, you might not like my music.

My style evolves day by day; I love change.

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

I don't think I'll ever do a record that's just the same song over and over again because I'd like to think about it like it's an album and a snapshot of everything that makes you who you are and where you're at at that time in your life.

If you're not changing what you're doing and exploring different parts of your musical output, I think you're slowly dying.

Portugal. The Man, to me, doesn't have any real ties. We try to change things up with every album, really progress, and let things happen.

If you stick with one sound and one way of working, how will you ever progress?

I have changed so much, post-'Raaz,' as a person.

I am never going to stop evolving and growing.

I'm somebody who constantly wants to challenge himself, evolve, and grow. Because if you don't, you fade. You become stagnant.

Looking back at my younger self, that I'm not so different than I am now. I was always a seeker. I wanted very ambitiously to be a writer and what happened between now and then is that I continually threw myself in the way of those things that would help me become that, of doing and finding and learning from things that altered me along the way.