Thomas Mars Quotes

I guess all bands get to that point where they run out of inspiration and just get bored with the chemistry.

I always try to be alert to the potential for repetition, for a decaying orbit with regard to my use of technique, etc.

I think all artists need to try to improve, or their work gets stale.

I inherited that calm from my father, who was a farmer. You sow, you wait for good or bad weather, you harvest, but working is something you always need to do.

Conventional agriculture has never succeeded in feeding the world, and it's never produced anything good to eat. For the future, we need to look toward alternatives.

Always changing genres, making very different films is a good idea. It's a way of making yourself feel vulnerable again, getting back to that innocence. As is working within a circumspect budget.

Sometimes you're trapped in writing songs and you don't have enough distance from what you do anymore and you need the talent and the years of other people to come and jump in.

From the time I was a small boy, I remember working in the fields with my grandfather and father. We weren't growing grapes, but we were farming crops, creating something good out of the earth.

I do believe that we have the opportunity to continue - I repeat myself over and over again with this - to redefine and reinvent ourselves and as long as we do that, then I think we've got some pretty good odds in our favor, because we're not always presenting the same thing.

I raise corn and cattle and soybeans. Soybeans are a good cash crop.

In every decade rock and roll starts to get very serious and navel gazing and kind of self serious and every once and a while it kind of needs a kick in the pants.

I got really frustrated in jail, and I was like, 'Man, I love what I've done, and I love the mark I've made on rock n' roll history'... and I sat there, and I got really depressed, thinking, 'I gotta make a move... do something fresh and new.'

I've learned that you can do something great, but you have to continue reinventing yourself as an artist. So by the time someone else is copying your style, you have something else to offer your audience.

You have to constantly change and evolve because people get bored. Look at The Undertaker: he's evolved so many times.

I see every new album as an opportunity to start over. To either build or improve upon a direction that has been evolving over time or to completely break new ground.

I think the best artists find ways to reinvent themselves. They find new ways to tell their stories, or they find new stories to tell.

When you do one more 'Cinderella' or whatever, what is there to learn? Every part in the repertoire has a good side and a bad side, and the more often you do the same ballet, the more often the bad side comes out. If you want to give dance life, you must give it fresh food, not keep going back to the garbage to look for old scraps.

I feel like you have to constantly evolve because if you're not changing, the audience gets bored.

When innovations become habits, prescriptions, they must be imagined all over again, made new.

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.

The role of design at a company is to allow you to recreate yourself, to allow your company to find a new way of success before the old way fails.

Success nullifies. You then have to do it again, preferably differently.

If you take your last album & try to copy it, then thats sure to hell the way to stagnation. And that makes me bored...and if I'm bored then the music is boring and so are the band!

Electronic music right now is in its comfort zone, and it's not moving one inch.

Nothing comes from nothing, Thieflet; no story comes from nowhere; new stories are born from old--it is the new combinations that make them new.