Mura Masa Quotes

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

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.

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

That's kind of the nature of being in a progressive band - always trying new things, moving forward.

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?

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

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

A lot of times, when a band finds success with a certain style or sound, they have a really hard time breaking away from that to grow as artists.

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.

The more I compose, the more I know that I don't know it all. I think it's a good way to start. If you think you know it all, the work becomes a repetition of what you've already done. I try to make sure that I don't repeat my music.

Music changes, and I'm gonna change right along with it.

I think to stay in one sound is a career killer.

I'm not interested in re-creating the same blues I love so much. I'm interested in pushing boundaries.

I don't want to write the same song over and over again.

Music is constantly developing and changing.

It's all about the balance. For musicians, me personally, you just can't keep doing covers or mash-ups. It would get old pretty fast.

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 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 am optimistic about the future of music.

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.

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.

I love hip-hop and soul, but I desperately want to challenge it and see what I can bring to it.

I'm proud that with 'Bright Eyes' we've always experimented and tried to make a different record every time out.