Music Stagnation Quotes

Rap is always evolving. It's easy for the old school to hate the new school, but it's a music that got a little stifled I think, by the Internet a little bit.

I think there are unseen powers who don't want pop music to be anything other than glorified Madonnas.

R&B needs to see a new light. It doesn't have to be pigeonholed.

There are a few good 'psych' groups but too many never change from their first appearance. They don't develop.

I have watched music go from an art form into an industry. And I have watched it stop dead in its tracks because of the digital age.

I'm starting to feel like so much of rock music is derivative and boring.

I did my thing with Jive. I was a national recording artist, but I had run into a wall.

The older ideas are rendering more and more bland music.

I'm very bad with music. I don't know any new music. I've listened to the same 10 or 12 albums my whole life.

With the last couple of Pantera records, we kept getting more and more narrow-minded because of Phil. He didn't want to experiment or take any chances, and it was like being in a tube that was getting to be so small you couldn't even breathe. Personally, I think the dude was afraid of success.

I sort of fell out of new music. I'm old, I like what I like, and that's that.

I do not think that music keeps evolving. It evolved through Bach; since then, in my humble opinion, all the innovations added nothing.

the relentless touring and endless repetition of the same songs over and over again promoted a creeping awareness that my music had begun to sound like my washing machine.

Soul music as we've always known it hasn't changed. There are different players now with different attitudes, but there is nothing new being done musically.

I mean there's certainly a lot of progressive rock and metal that exists at the underground level, which has its own vitality, as it should. But it seems to have lost its ability to really charge up the hill.

I would say there is a zone of R&B that hadn't been quite innovative.