Music Maturity Quotes

I want to grow as an artist, and I'm taking a step out. I want my music to mature.

I write simple songs, and people like that. They're mature enough to appeal to people who aren't teenage girls. Most of my fans are older, and it's nice to think the songs can appeal to middle-aged men and women.

Rock isn't a young music anymore. I don't think it's necessarily even a youth-oriented music.

I feel like there's a lot of albums that are like 'woo! we're young, let's have fun' and there's a lot of albums that are abstract, with mature lyrics.

Remember when you used to watch TV in the Sixties and you'd see Perry Como in a cashmere sweater? That's what rock 'n' roll is becoming. It's your parents' music.

We've gotten better as a live band. The songs have been allowed to grow with our audience. I don't think I would have done it any other way.

One of the things that's happened in the music I love over the past five, 10 years is that some people have gotten very old and continued to make music.

Now that rock is turning 50, it's become classical in itself. It's interesting to see that development.

I had deeper, more reflective songs on the first album.

On every album you can see my growth.

Now my music is kind of pop-rock, right? If I'm 25 and singing still, I don't want to be singing music like that.

Our music is becoming more mature.

I proved myself with 'Smoke Ring.' It was me maturing. I made a good pop record.

My music's gonna evolve as I get older.

Nobody went out to pasture, and a lot of people are doing their best work. Bruce Springsteen, Tom Petty, and Sting are at the top of their game. I mean, Tony Bennett is the coolest guy I ever met! We have to figure out how to break out of this age ghetto.

I think people take Blink-128 more seriously now than they did before. And it's largely our fault because we called our records Enema of the State and Take Off Your Pants and Jacket. We were always kind of the underdogs, especially critically. People wrote us off as this joke band. But the people who listened to Blink knew that we were silly and whatever, but we wrote songs about divorce and suicide and depression. Those kids that were listening to Blink are now the ones that control all these outlets that used to just write us off.

Young kids should be doing music that has shock value. They'll grow out of it.

I've certainly developed as a vocalist. I find my early recordings very difficult to listen to.

Younger players in this music often turn out to be middle aged; it is not a young music.