Innovative Music Quotes

I know it's hard for people to imagine a time when 'Hamilton' wasn't 'Hamilton,' but for years, it was just this little thing that I was telling people about that didn't make any sense to anybody as I was describing it. But I loved it.

I'm coming from a place that's more experimental and indulgent already, so for the last 10 years, it's been more like, "How can I defend my own sensibilities by writing a nugget of a little catchy pop song?" That's how I'm stretching myself, by writing something really simple.

I can put a hip-hop beat to reggae. That is, I can have real reggae in the drums and in the rhythm, and on top of it I can put The Rolling Stones' feeling, anyone's feeling on top. Nobody has ever done this before, man.

Combining sounds that are from another universe with the classic songwriting structures never gets old for me.

It's a bit of a bold statement, but the Prodigy should be seen as an important cultural band.

'Far Beyond Driven' was a record that was probably ahead of its time, and to this day, it still sounds as fresh as just about any other band that's out there. It was a record that was pushed to another level.

Cartoonist Walt Disney has made the twentieth century's only important contribution to music. Disney has made use of music as language.

I don't understand why some people will only accept a guitar if it has an instantly recognizable guitar sound. Finding ways to use the same guitar people have been using for 50 years to make sounds that no one has heard before is truly what gets me off.

I come from hip hop for sure, and there are basic elements of that, but then I'll take from somewhere else, like samba, and do it with trap drums. I like going places other people haven't gone before.

As interesting as that music can occasionally be, I don't think it really replaces the other.

Earth, Wind & Fire was something new. I wanted to bring something innovative to the music. It was out of a desire to create excitement with music that was pleasurable to play and listen to.

The Roots are well-respected and considered vanguards in the music.

I think as this generation of electronic musicians goes on, popular electronic music will be more and more accepted. It's gonna get less confusing. You know, most people called rap stupid when it started, and it was one of the most innovative music forms of its time.

I love truly forward-thinking music, and I'm not even sure I'd describe my work as that, even.

Birth of the Cool' became a collector's item, I think, out of a reaction to Bird and Dizzy's music. Bird and Diz played this hip, real fast thing, and if you weren't a fast listener, you couldn't catch the humor or the feeling in their music. Their musical sound wasn't sweet, and it didn't have harmonic lines that you could easily hum out on the street with your girlfriend trying to get over with a kiss.

It's interesting when something new comes along, a band of dwarfs playing electronic harps or something, but I'm not searching.

Thankfully I have a fan base that wants to see me, so I really enjoy creating music that is different.

I've got a superstar like Usher singing bachata, a tune featuring Lil Wayne. I'm offering people more than just bachata. That captures a new audience that would listen to bachata because Usher is singing.

What I really love about the Bay area sound is that it's very unique and that's something I want to strive for, as an artist. It's easy to get caught up in what's trending, but Bay area rap stays true to the local sound.

I know we play a part in the story of progressive music, but for us those influences are the real fathers, the ones that we were interested in.

All the big artists I talk to say that they are trapped in a formula and they are looking for the music of tomorrow.

I don't believe that what Tears for Fears has done, and continues to do, can be pigeonholed into a genre or decade.

My idea is to take the improvisational excitement that takes place with Carnatic music and juxtapose that in different sonic contexts.

I hope people describe my music as lyrically driven, cross genre. Kind of alternative, kind of indie, kind of rap, kind of everything.

Fight the tendency to become complacent and do one kind of music - that is the death of a musician.