Robbie Robertson Quotes

Pop music is so structured, and I'm excited to try and challenge that in my own work.

I think I'm always trying to subvert conventions, and sometimes it's more successful than others.

I think everything's experimental whether you like it or not. I think that people who do generic pop are experimenting with cliches. It's no less than I am experimenting with noise or unknown music - until you say, 'This is my song, or this is my composition' - it's all experimental, whether you like it or not.

Music should always be an adventure.

For me, prog rock has always been essentially British. It combines all our great and eccentric genius. We are not hung up on categories, rules and classification. We love people who break the mould, challenge us and make us think differently.

I have always had an audience for my music, even in the very avant garde, crazy times.

There's so many things that Kanye does that I agree with and disagree with at times. I just say, 'You're in a different place, and what you're doing is experimental. Nobody's been there in hip-hop.'

I'm disregarding all the rules I've seen as people approach writing music. I'm trying to break them.

I just wanted to make melodies. I started trying to do my own thing and let the melodies make the genre themselves.

It's always been a conscious thing for us to do whatever will separate us from the pack and make us happy musically.

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 like the challenge of writing music without being the coolest guy or band in the room.

I wanted to go beyond what K-pop is typically perceived as, and through 'Move' I was able to show a concept that's more edgy, more powerful.

I wanted to try a different way of making music. That's what made me try different things with my voice.

I admire artists who really take risks and aren't afraid to do smaller movies and obscure, abstract things. It would be really cool if my career neared that.

I broke a lot of conventions. Look, I spent a long time as an actor. I spent a lot of time playing pretty ordinary arcs.

I always want to keep moving musically and trying new things.

And I'm interested in writing music that takes risks. My point is that maybe the term EDM is pinned on me and my buddies, but maybe it'll be less so if I experiment.

I've lost so many gigs composing commercial or television music because I can't repress my inclination to work against conventions.

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

A lot of people want to put you in a slot. They want to categorize you. So I fought that, because I liked all different kinds of music.

You should live hoping you are going to offend people, because then you're doing something.

The first five albums I did, I tried a little bit of everything. I was trying not to conform at all.

I think myself, Jose James, and Robert Glasper are expanding the language - really reminding people that the umbrella of jazz is large and all-encompassing.

I wanted to go so I could learn the rules and conventions in order to break them later on.