It's a very subjective, personal, instinctive approach as musicians of saying, 'We don't want to replace what's around; we just want to widen the possibilities.'
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The point is to balance on the edge between musicality and content.
People want to hear about the extremes of human nature. They want things that are larger than their own lives, and more romantic, and not necessarily of their own experiences.
When a lot of musicians change styles, their songwriting suffers because they want to be different.
Many times in life, we say we want change but are then terrified when the opportunity for it arrives.
Musicians are always eclectic. Musicians are always curious and hungry for new things.
If you are a writer or any kind of artist, if you change something as fundamental as where you live - the way you live - then I think you change the very instrument that is trying to make the art.
Creativity and artistic endeavors have a mission that goes far beyond just making music for the sake of music.
I wanted to modernize music, but more than that, to completely modernize people's attitudes towards life in general.
It isn't something of which most of us are aware, but we human beings are 'marked' with a certain strange feature, and that is: We want to change.
What the world is saying to us human beings is, 'Don't stick to the old ways, learn to think anew.' And that's what musicians do every day.
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