Progressive Music Quotes

Portugal. The Man, to me, doesn't have any real ties. We try to change things up with every album, really progress, and let things happen.

Two of my favorite bands, Blackberry Smoke and Black Stone Cherry, I just think both of those bands are a good new progressive kind of Southern Rock that's a little different than us but still has a rootsy thing going on.

We kinda were a radio-rock band. We were still pretty technical, but I think the prog people hated us because we didn't do a bunch of weird time signatures... which are cool at times, but I'm more interested in progressive harmony.

The style of music that we're playing, this progressive metal style, has always been an upstream battle for us. We don't usually get a lot of commercial exposure.

I love truly forward-thinking music, and I'm not even sure I'd describe my work as that, even.

My fifth record is, in many ways, inspired by the hugely ambitious progressive pop records that I loved in my youth.

I know we play a part in the story of progressive music, but for us those influences are the real fathers, the ones that we were interested in.

Dream Theater music, there's a lot of background and context to the songs, as far as the subject matter and the albums they come from.

People who like progressive music tend to sneer at the idea of a kind of punk aesthetic, and people who like alternative indie rock or punk rock tend to sneer at what they see as the pretentiousness and pomposity of progressive music.

Avant-garde music is sort of research music. You're glad someone's done it but you don't necessarily want to listen to it.

Prog rock, with a little good taste, is ok. I tried to bring some of it into this century, I guess.

I feel like our whole discography up through 'Hail to the King' was young, fun, and exciting. It was aggressively driven. 'The Stage' was the first step in the band becoming a more mature musical entity.

We are aiming to create a one and only new music genre that exceeds the limits of pop and metal music.

We've done very different Yes albums - 11 bars, 13. I think we had something that had 17/4 in it. It's just like anything - the more you do it, the more you have to do it.

I love futurist music.

Dream Theater has never been a band that hit at a particular fashionable point and said, 'OK, that's basically it.'

We have this really retro vibe and style of songwriting and, personally, I wasn't embracing the current state of music until I fell in love with hip-hop. It felt good to suddenly embrace where music was headed, and I think hip-hop is the best at that, because it feels so progressive and everybody wants to be the best.

Prog didn't really go away. Just took a catnap in the late Seventies. A new generation of fans discovered it, and a whole new array of bands and solo artists took it on into the new millennium.

There's a song called 'Slip To The Void,' which is fairly long and has more of an epic approach. And I guess for lack of a better term some people might throw the progressive tag on it. I don't know if it necessarily falls into that - a few people have brought that up who have heard it.

I'm totally up for experimental music. I'm up for music that they don't play on the radio, and I take in all of it. But my thing, the thing that comes most natural to me, is making the stuff that has a melody; it has a soul to it, yet it's head music.

Mars Volta was always about embracing what 'too much' was and the excess of it. I never thought there would be an audience for it.

Avant-garde is the one area of music that has never changed. It doesn't mean anything.

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

The whole thing about 'progressive R&B' blows my mind. Black music has always been progressive.

That's kind of the nature of being in a progressive band - always trying new things, moving forward.