Doug E. Fresh Quotes

For me, making music is a continuous learning experience, and I think that it feeds itself.

My hope is to continue to make new music and go with the flow. I think I'll always be creative. I want to keep making good music, put myself into positions where I need to rise to the occasion of playing in front of an audience, and continually get better at what I'm doing.

It is not about writing those hits again. I am sure I could write them, but it is about the sensibilities.

Designers and musicians are primed to keep thinking forward. Once an album or collection launches, you can only think about doing the next one.

Never try to make the same record twice, even when people are screaming for the same sound.

In any of the arts, you never stop learning.

But, on the other hand, if Schubert were alive today, he would find even richer fields to plow.

What I love about each album is the opportunity to expand on what we've done in the past - to push myself and the band creatively, vocally, and lyrically.

I think most producers and MCs are constantly in this competition, but it's usually with yourself. It's usually wanting to be innovative: wanting to catch yourself when you're doing the same thing or throwing out the same art you've already done.

I started singing because it was a natural evolution in hip-hop to me. Without Prince, I wouldn't have embraced that. I wouldn't have been able to embrace me.

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

Obviously, I never want to make the same record twice. I want to keep moving forward. That's the real challenge, I think.

When some artistes give a hit song, they keep repeating themselves in the same genre. I always try to create something new.

Pushing yourself and digging into something new, that's what being a musician is all about.

For anybody to say well this is not Hip Hop and that's not Hip Hop, that is not the way the formula was laid down. It was for the people who were going to continue take anything musically and string it along.

I think, as an artist, it's very important to continue to be challenged and feel challenged all the time.

That's what's great about the arts. Everything inspires you, and you get a chance to grow from watching other people and how they do their work.

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

Music has to keep moving. But I was lucky. For me there was always something around the corner.

I think everything that you do, you're learning. I mean, every movie that you make is like a film school; that's one of the things that I enjoy about filmmaking.

The more you're out there singing, learning, and adding roles to your repertoire, it reforms the next piece.

I prefer to think of myself as a musician who is still learning and trying to do something every time out.

No, it's not dissatisfaction that inspires me to tinker with my songs, it's just restlessness.

I want to be the kind of artist who keeps pushing on every album. I don't want to settle on a sound.

I'm still learning my craft.