David Spade Quotes

I like writing different types of music. I don't like being stuck into one thing.

I think rock & roll has prepared me for a lot of flexibility.

Eclecticism is the word. Like a jazz musician who creates his own style out of the styles around him, I play by ear.

A lot of songs are derivative of each other. Sometimes you need to take a departure from what you do to something that's slightly different in order to get inspiration.

What I do is, I look at rock guitar players, and I say to myself, 'What is this guy doing? What does he have that can inspire me?' I try to see what other people are doing and take what they have and turn it and twist it into my own thing.

The greatest thing about me is I have always been able to reinvent. We have done that about three or four times with my sound.

A lot of people from my generation of music are so focused on playing things correctly or to perfection that they're stuck in that safe place.

You just keep playing. If someone special comes along and organizes it in a new way, then you'll have another approach and everybody will jump on it to try to learn.

I can't re-define music every week!

You'll find little schools of musicians experimenting with different ways of making music in Brooklyn, all through Manhattan, in Queens, in Jersey, you know? The city is still bubbling with creativity.

Hip hop is doing the new rock thing; there are no rules. They can do anything, really. And that's inspiring.

That's why so much of the music today sounds so much alike, because there's no in-between. So it's kind of nice to still turn some buttons every now and then.

I may play the same songs night to night, but I never play them the same way.

I think you can't repeat beats. If you're doing something in one book, you can't do the exact same thing in another book.

None of my songs sound the same. None of them. I take R&B beats and put it as a rap song or hip-hop beats and put them as a R&B song. A lot of people are boring. I don't like boring music. Everybody sounds the same, like they copying.

Especially with Fantomas, i'm just trying to stretch out what the band can do. Figuring out, really, on the job or on recordings, what I can or can't get away with.

I love experimenting; as a singer, one needs to be versatile.

Just based on the primary adage of the necessity breeding innovation, it was just like 'Well, what makes me the guitar player that I am?' and I feel like I listen to so much different music, and I'm a student of so many genres of music, and I feel like it's fun to apply those things and anything super applicable to any type of music.

I always strive to make my music unique.

My thing is whatever comes at me, I'm there. But DJ-ing and music is my passion... I'm going to be unpredictable.

We always want to do covers, but we found it kind of boring to do covers of bands in our genre, and we were always asked to do those.

Our music is constantly evolving and changing, and when this band put out an album we always try to offer something different.

I don't like to write the same song twice.

Jazz is an octopus. It will take whatever it can use and it will work with it.

In hip-hop, what you have is you have a lot of formulaic-type bands or rappers that come up. They saw something on the radio, and they want to mimic that formula. And that's just boring. I don't wanna record something just to make money; I want to record something to enjoy it and have fun because I'm a music lover.