Creative Advancement Quotes

I think we always have to put forth music that's better than the last.

I don’t think you can talk about progress in art—movement, but not progress.

I plan to take Hoods Up to another level of art once we've reached the level of doing so.

All different forms of human expression, art, science, are going to become expanded, by expanding our intelligence.

I always want to be growing in my craft. Any artist should - whether you paint, whether you do music or film - always grow and study.

I think expectations of 'Doctor Who' should always be high, because it's a show that must always progress and get better and better.

An artist must either give up art or develop.

The orbit of human vision has widened and art has annexed fresh territories that were formerly denied to it.

I don't think you can talk about progress in art - movement, but not progress. You can speak of a point on a line for the purpose of locating things, but it's a horizontal line, not a vertical one.

With all due respect to the people who made the motorcycle movies during the '60s, I felt the sophistication level could be a bit higher, and I felt I could raise the bar on that, too.

Well, remember that we were all members of the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians.

I've grown, and my passion for music has grown. I've become more advanced and I've enhanced my vocabulary. All around artist development.

There's no such thing as bop music, but there's such a thing as progress.

I think the long-term goal is to continue to grow as people and as a unit, individually and together, and hopefully continue to keep making records that are better every time, because if you're not moving forward, you're either standing still or regressing.

Music should be pushed forward.

Scientists do stand on the shoulders of giants, just as do writers. Conversely, in the arts we do make discoveries. We do refine our tools. So I am arguing with, or at least playing with, the idea that art never improves.

Music needs to move forward.