Best Musical Innovation Quotes

"Drake also delivers something to the hip-hop world that we weren't familiar with, and that was singing and rapping into one."

"Tool, A tier. I don't even love Tool, but what Tool did as far as crafting their own identity, pushing music forward, changing the way people write in this modern time for Hard Rock and metal, just rethinking how you do musicing is brilliant."

"Having two guys go back and forth in a song is much needed these days."

"But through a combination of insane talent and once-in-a-millennium luck, they were responsible for creating or at least popularizing a lot of conventions in popular music that we take for granted today."

"We have innovated every genre of music in this country."

"The fusion on Carnival 3 is the nephews meet the uncle."

"He takes hip hop to a new level as opposed to keeping it popular with the same cliches that everyone else already does."

"By mid-2022, Yachty was finally being appreciated for the genius he is."

"Red Bone's sound was distinguished by Lolly's innovation."

"I think it's gonna change music forever and I think it's gonna be the anthem for the next 100 years in terms of age of aquarius and in terms of conscious music."

"If Islands was anything to go by, Fripp wanted to take his fascination for improvisation and musical exploration even further."

"Sampling is a foundation for hip-hop music, meaning it increased in popularity in the '80s as hip-hop became more popular."

"The Birds morphed a pot sensibility with a much deeper theme."

"Déjà Vu was unlike anything Dreamcatcher had done before."

"Someone to be that innovator and bring in new sounds that will inspire the next wave of artists."

"The Beatles' later work is when they started really getting their minds opened up."

"One night Marianela woke up and saw Estefania levitating above her bed."

"Music notation is the biggest and most important invention of all time for music and musicians."

"It's a hip-hop musical of Cinderella, it's dope!"

"My favorite thing is when... anybody bending genres."

"Progressive music is cool and it certainly adds a lot of fun, interesting stuff to the palette of what rock can be."

"If I had to pick a rapper, dude, I would just like to hear Drake on a Bone Crew song."

"Eddie Van Halen actually invented rock guitar in many respects."

"You only see someone like that once every era... who since then has been able to create such a unique blend of guitar playing?"

"Kendrick is arguably the most successful voice and flow manipulator in hip-hop."

"Kendrick's sonic choices constantly evolve and serve as a model for rappers looking to stand out from a crowd."

"He's giving musical direction to get these artists on his beats that's completely different than just sending a beat pack out."

"It's always thrilling, and I think McCartney was smart to associate himself with it because he set the bar for the theme that would follow."

"My whole drum set is like a keyboard, it's like I can play melodies and songs by myself."

"What if there was like a genius composer who just called all the instruments something stupid, but he was so good that people still use them?"

"Rosalia was again lauded for experimentation and releasing a fresh sounding genre-bending album."

"Little Richard’s style and success would make him one of the first crossover black artists."

"Drake was able to change the sound of music."

"Try new things, experiment, get uncomfortable, because a lot of times, being uncomfortable, that's when you're gonna make the best music."

"Hans Zimmer told us, 'You have something interesting here.'"

"But long before the tragedy, he was best known as the mind behind some of the greatest pop songs in history using his signature 'Wall of Sound.'"

"Bowie was really a master of unexpected superbly melodic changes."

"It's simultaneously an evolutionary step forward for De La Soul, for hip-hop, for music in general."

"Exploring a new sound with a rejuvenated energy, the result was a string of hit albums that included the award-winning Rumors."

"Trust me, I'm always looking at those top songs and I'm like okay, how do I make a better version?"

"Trent Reznor truly is one of the most creative musicians of our generation."

"Tyler really proved that a rapper could really just go into any Direction they want sonically and doesn't really have to play by any rules."

"Every single Monster that they've added in it's done so much for the song."

"I want to do weird stuff, somewhere between Billie Eilish and Beyoncé."

"Missy is everything. She's always been the most innovative."

"He changed music history by pushing the bar."

"Perhaps Cemetery Gates is the best distillation of Pantera's new and exciting sound."

"Led Zeppelin always in favor of venturing into new musical territory."

"No other mono synth can boast such a reaction to its sound."

"The Zombies were the first rock band to use an electric piano as a lead instrument on a hit song."

"I think it's one of the best inventions for the guitar since the guitar's been in existence."

"You can achieve commercial success playing music that's honestly pretty [ __ ] weird."

"They're one of those bands that almost everybody is borrowing from whether they know it or not."

"Tyga is definitely a really fresh look at the genre as a whole."

"To me, oh man and and this ties into the whole even though I'm not a big believer in the whole Kanye's a genius like I don't I don't run to that like everybody else does yeah this feels like he created a whole new genre."

"Nice to see music legend John kale still kicking and still totally unafraid to experiment and try something new on this LP over here."

"BTS constantly change their image and their sound."

"That's why I love these guitars because they really showed what Gibson was capable of doing despite the 70s and 80s kind of being an era of lower quality guitars as compared to what you're used to seeing in the 50s or 60s."

"I really think Ryan was a genius, he wrote some real genius [ __ ] that literally changed the [ __ ] game."

"If you want to hear something different going on in rock music, bands like Liturgy are at that cutting edge and are trying new things."

"He's willing to take risks and I feel like a lot of artists that are up and coming aren't willing to take the same risks and push the envelope the way that Baby Keem is."

"Every form of popular music takes its cues from black people, and creativity. It’s just a fact."

"It's crazy how he can literally sing and use the exact same habit over and over again and it still feels fresh and just beautiful every single time."

"BTS didn't have the platform, but they had the talent, foundation, creativity, and real love for music."

"Part of the genius of Michael Jackson is the fact that he completely rearranged the structures of his music."

"Tomorrow Never Knows confirmed that the Beatles were now musical innovators of global importance."

"The Beatles changed the sound, form, ambition, scale, and language of popular music."

"Even back in 1971 at the beginning of Bowie's career he's already making an album that changes the way that other people make music."

"The art of life is breaking the wall and breaking down boundaries, and paving their own path in music is what X Japan does best."

"It's a kinetic clip that uses fluid camera movements and excellent set design to bring something fresh from a true musical trailblazer."

"Radiohead's name is synonymous with innovation."

"Kendrick is really the artist that will blow your mind in terms of song concepts, album concepts, lyrically, everything."

"Rivers of Nile managed to marry 70s and 80s prog with modern tech death and some of the cleanest death metal vocals."

"Gen Z artists can mix and match their favorite genres and influences into new and innovative ways... and it's truly Democratic too."

"I found some things that we can use for instruments."

"Little Richard was one of the founders of rock and roll and I could even argue that he was the innovator of rock and roll because the way he performed and the music he made definitely set a foundation for what rock and roll would become."

"Giving gospel a musical theater makeover. It's impossible not to find this tune utterly charming."

"Dark ska hip-hop punk - which one of those times where a band puts out a totally original sounding record."

"What a crazy idea you know... the Beatles never would have done Punk."

"He used it on Tunes like 'Boom Like That,' 'Stand Up Guy,' and 'Don't Crash the Ambulance.'"

"Daft Punk over the years were able to forge a truly unique sound and aesthetic—highly influential all around."

"More than a feeling is more than a classic rock staple; it is an inspired brainchild of innovative artistic engineering and earth-shattering vocals."

"Billy Joe said in writing this track he was attempting to write the Bohemian Rhapsody of the future and yeah man he fucking nailed it."

"Elvis Presley was one of the first musical Rebels to spark the major musical shift."

"The harmony throughout the Banjo-Kazooie soundtrack is constantly subverting your expectations."

"Bowie's journey was marked by resilience, innovation, and a refusal to conform."

"So let me encourage you tour using some live instrumentation instead of discouraging all the synthetic stuff."

"I think they're all super talented and especially in the case of young lean he really invented so much of like the sad boy rap thing."

"I had in mind a guitar that sustained and reproduced the sound of the string with nothing added, no distortion, no change in the response." - Les Paul

"Sometimes you just have to, like the first people that ever played piano."

"Creating something unique and special dictates everything that happens after it."

"Lady Gaga's Bad Romance is an unbelievably inventive gorgeous piece of music."

"I wonder if you can beatbox epic music, 'cause I really want epic, epic music would be awesome."

"I really think it's kind of pointless to talk about talent or whatever I think whoever can make good music in whatever setting amazing do it."

"Astroworld is just one of those albums, it takes all of the greatest ideas, trends, and motifs of its generation, it mixes them with some experimental sounds, some very real songs, and different genres, creating an icon of its generation musically."

"Beyonce has definitely done something sonically different that we haven't heard from her before."

"I just wanted to open that out a bit and think well it doesn't have to be that at all. I quite like doing the thing with the vibrato on with a fifth, this just sounds like again trying to get them to move the same amount sounds quite synthy."

"It's autotuned. The first solo is autotuned so it gets this elasticity which is unfamiliar from autotune because it plays with the guitar differently than the vocal."

"They sounded like the future in the early 80s."

"Page's search for tone has benefited everyone that came after him."

"It's like if the best of the Beatles had like 17 new songs on it."

"The gem still has 5 different models plus a 7 string model plus the new Pia guitar."

"The Leo Fender genius was matching the amp with the guitar."

"The fact is Oliver Sykes and Jordan Fish from the band have stated that they're kind of bored with the state of rock and they're not being inspired by that they're trying new things."

"Rap music is the first form of music that ever made you think about other music with the idea of, this is dope but imagine if this were a [ __ ] beat."

"It totally is, I need to thank Rhett Shull, John Cordy, and others for blazing a trail with the stomp."

"From the likes of Michael Jackson and Madonna to Prince and Whitney Houston, certain artists have pushed the boundaries of music, ushering a new landscape for newer artists to thrive in."

"I think he is bringing something different, I think this is a really interesting concept for a mixtape."

"It's cool to see how he was able to flip it now it's different... it was an awesome album."

"It was cool to see him play characters for the first time."

"For a band that's melding these different genres to actually stand out, you know, it's really exceptional."

"There's no question that Tubular Bells is one of the most unique pieces of music written in the century. It embraces so many platforms..."

"Now you can get voltage as pitch into any of the three oscillators... play two different notes at a time."

"Every classic album has to have a unique sound."

"Noodler is a genuinely fresh approach to live jamming and sequencing—I'm not aware of anything like it."

"Larson's goal was to revolutionize musical theater with 'real rock,' incorporating influences from pop music at the time."

"It's doing it different enough to where I get a different feeling from it."

"Nancy Wilson defying musical boundaries, turning songs into stories."

"It's just like my mind was blown by that guy right there, and nobody who played those kind of sounds before he did."

"They were inventing post-punk as they went along."

Arca's "Mutant": an hour-long collection of tracks aggressively stitched together, out of this world.

"Madonna's vocals are very much up in the front, but again with this album, she's being a lot more experimental with the placement of her voice."

"But at the same time, another even bigger revolution was brewing in the world of timbre: the synthesizer."

"Jimi is just going berserk with the whammy bar and using feedback and you know fuzz and unified but nothing you know wah-wah just kind of incorporating everything that was Jimi Hendrix."

"Jimmy Page is one I think one of these rare breeds of artists who is able to not only create as an artist but make damn sure that his business interests are on on a level playing field."

"What would Puccini and Verdi and Wagner make of all this? One suspects they would join in the Applause, they after all were Once musical boundary pushers too."

"Busta Rhymes is the one, he pioneered the feature."

"It's called an organismic synthesizer because it feels like it is much more of an organic way of evolving and producing the sounds."

"I love Tally Hall because they never shy away from experimentation with their music."

"It was the first British rap record."

"Embarking on a journey that would redefine the contours of contemporary music."

"So basically even if I thought not to have any drum, I bring in as a rhythmic device and it really worked out with a big system; it was like super powerful and super fun."

"Always coming up with new techniques that made the guitar sing."

"I think that bass has so much potential far beyond what people think it does and what people think it can do."

"I want myself to sound futuristic, I wanted to sound like nothing's ever sounded like before."

"New ideas started to emerge within the confines of 170 beats per minute."

"The first appearance of the guitars on this record is them doing their thing with some unconventional harmonies."

"The race was on to develop a keyboard instrument that went beyond the organ to give a realistic impression of strings."

"The Korg Kronos is almost 10 years old, but let's take a look at what it has to offer."

"They were genuinely born for this, just give the right musicians very little to no oversight with this project and they will do incredible things."

"While My Guitar Gently Weeps is George's first really serious piece."

"That my friends is vintage Dvorak and no one else would have done it, nobody else, not in a billion years."

"This album very much reinvented musical form in its blending of world music to folk modalities."

"The Juilliard Quartet really initiated an entirely new aesthetic in Beethoven quartet playing."

"Musical elements are taken from Japanese and European culture in equal measure and bashed together to make something new and attention-grabbing."

"The dark and brooding intro with the Gregorian chants and eerie melody was something they'd never done before on an opening track."

"Interstellar soul is super awesome with that kind of cowboy space twanginess."

"From subtle boosts and tone tweaking to fuzz-light cranked console saturation, these pedals enhance anything that passes through the circuit."

"It's literally the only reverb I liked on the Big Sky, and now they have it in a small form factor, and it's midi, count me in."

"Jazz represents one of the greatest musical innovations to come out of the 20th century."

"Stravinsky's skill at incorporating traditional music into novel and imaginative forms."

"This is probably the most ingenious guitar innovation that I've seen in many, many years."

"We are in a golden age of musical equipment. It's the best built pieces of equipment in the history of guitar making and amplification ever."

"It's got a much faster processor, it actually has a truss rod."

"Perfect loops are a great way of innovating in DJing."

"She took control of her career, moved out on her own, and developed her own sound and influential style."

"He was perhaps the greatest improviser in music, and his techniques revolutionized sonata structure."

"Is this the future of electronic drums and drumming? Well, today we're going to find out."

"If you just love your e-drums, you love the sound, just give it a go. You are the perfect person to try e-drums onstage."

"Glass successfully walked the fine line between popular music and classical music."

"Hamilton isn't just a musical about a revolution; its musical style itself is also revolutionary in terms of musical theatre because it packs such an incredible number of words into its two-and-half-hour story."

"Most of the software drum machines today are really far more than just simple sequencers and pads that originally inspired them."

"They had to get records and use the records as instruments and find the break beats and that was their instrument."

"That daring spirit of experimentation captured inside the 'Levee' drum break inspired generations of musicians to push the boundaries of what is possible in music production."

"They wanted more polyphony, different levels of controls, and a bigger form factor."

"Juno X from Roland takes the familiar interface of the classic 106 and combines it with the sample and virtual analog capabilities of its ZEN-Core engine."

"There's nothing cooler than a song that's not a metal song and then a metal band doing a cover of like a pop song."

"Stuart Copeland was an innovator in the way that he fused reggae funk with that raw power and speed of punk."

"By the time of Rubber Soul, they were ready for new musical directions."

"What Eddie Van Halen did for the sport of music is nothing short of brilliance."

"Imagine how thrilling it must have been to discover that there was a way to adapt the motivic scope of atonality and the licentious freedom of its harmonic possibilities within a familiar formal enterprise."

"I really think Leo Fender absolutely knocked it out of the park with those two."

"The band is a band highly intent on change and ever onward pressing as far you know into through the boundaries as one can possibly go."

"It's going to be another sort of fusion of heavy metal electric guitar playing with a more classical approach to music making."

"It revolutionized the way that music could portray things as core as emotions and atmosphere."

"Aaliyah wasn't just another R&B singer; she was a visionary."

"He was the forerunner of bebop, man, that is the originator of writing all those hip tunes."

"In the 60s, the trumpeter and inventor Niles Steiner came up with the idea of a synthesizer that you can control actually like a horn."

"I always encourage drummers to try out just weird stuff on the drums."

"Roland has done a few things about this instrument that I think are pretty meaningful."

"It doesn't sound remotely like a 70s band, it's like they just threw down the gauntlet."

"Elvis's revolutionary musical mix always had country as a key ingredient."

"I was actually doing something quite interesting on the F chord."

"We knew that creatively we were going to have the chance to try some different ideas musically."

"It's like you have to have ones like we will step up and bring a fresh air and a fresh energy to the music scene."

"It's a great way for blind people to be able to play the instrument because it's got a voice guide on it."

"They played funk, ska, punk, metal, and all that meshed into one, and no one, absolutely no one was doing that."

"Homogenic by Björk, extravagant and amazing production, Björk is one of the best and most expressive vocalists of all time."

"Remain in Light by Talking Heads, it's such an eclectic mix of new wave, afrobeat, funk, art rock, post punk."

"The big news here, I think, is stainless steel frets."

"These guys invented music when they got to their most mature level, and I think 'Kashmir' is the epitome of that fourth level of writing which is innovation."

"This was incredible, I had never really heard anything like this, it was aggressive, it was chaotic, it was thick but it was also really beautiful."

"It's not really just a guitar pedal; this is a modular synthesizer in a box."

"The true glory of this instrument is a new eight-foot tuba based on an Ernest Skinner model circa 1928."

"The grand pedal feel system doesn't get talked about much, but it's actually pretty interesting."

"The 6000 is kind of an interesting beast because it combines functions and features from several different categories of digital pianos."

"This feels fresh, this feels progressive, this feels like the band really trying a new shade."

"What the Beatles were was like no one else had ever been, which was a genuine mass appeal because they had something for everyone."

"I have to give respect to Depeche Mode for always making those risky moves and going beyond their comfort zone."

"Bach is one of the few composers who can claim to have created his own era of music."