Creativity Quote by Trevor Dunn

"I need to broaden my horizons" is the kind of self-diagnosis that sounds brave while quietly admitting a rut. Coming from a working musician like Trevor Dunn, it reads less like a motivational poster and more like a practical survival tactic. Music careers can calcify fast: you get hired for a sound, a vibe, a reliable set of instincts, and the industry rewards you for repeating the version of yourself that already sells. The line pushes back on that gentle trap.

The phrasing matters. "Need" isn’t curiosity; it’s pressure. It suggests that staying put has started to feel dangerous, even if it’s comfortable. And "broaden" is tellingly modest. He’s not claiming reinvention or rebirth, the usual pop-mythology of the artist. He’s talking about widening the frame: taking in new scenes, new collaborators, new techniques, maybe even genres that would confuse the audience who thinks they already know what he is. Horizons are also visual metaphors, implying distance and scale; you broaden them by moving, by travel, by risk.

There’s subtext here about humility, too. To broaden your horizons is to admit your current ones are limited - by taste, by habit, by fear of looking amateur again. For a seasoned musician, that’s the hard part: choosing to be a beginner on purpose. In a culture that treats artistic identity like a brand, the sentence is quietly radical. It argues that the point isn’t to protect the brand; it’s to keep the instrument - and the person - responsive.