John Cale Quotes

If you do the same thing every night, that's the death of music.

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

Really, I get inspired by just switching projects and instrumentation and things like that - that creative part of just being different every time is really what inspires me.

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

Doing different things is great. It's always good to change things up. If you do the same thing over and over, it can get boring.

I'm not gonna do the same album over and over and over again.

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

I can't see myself just endlessly singing the same songs over and over again.

I just want to keep making music, recording and trying different things. I don't want to do the same thing all the time.

You can't just play the same thing, over and over again.

Honestly, as a director, at least for me, if I start doing the same thing over and over again, I'm going to get bored really quickly.

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.

One of the things that always was Fall Out Boy was trying new things and kind of pushing ourselves in different directions.

Musicians tend to get bored playing the same thing over and over, so I think it's natural to experiment.

I don't always just want to do the same thing.

I think there's a reason to go off and do something and experiment - splinter off and do something different. It keeps the nucleus of Fleetwood Mac fresh.

I think that the idea of having a different approach to every single one of my albums is so exciting to me. I never want to make the same record twice. Why do it? What's the point?

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

For me, I'm just trying to keep it fun, keep it interesting, not get stuck on the same sound, the same wave for too long.

I enjoy changing; I think it's more fun to try something different than to just do what you did last time. As an artist, you just want to keep creating, keep finding a place that really inspires you that feels fresh and new, and keep it exciting.

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

I'll never stick to one sound, I switch it up.

There's been a lot of role reversal going on in the band. The roles people have been playing for a long time will always be there, but everybody's willing to try on different outfits.

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