Quotes About Innovation

Knowing how to deal with change effectively is a primary requirement for living successfully in perhaps the most exciting time in all of human history

Every time new technology is introduced, especially involving reproduction, you get the 'yuck' effect.

I don't really have time to sit down and write. But when I think of a melody, I call up my answering machine and sing it, so I won't forget it.

The '50s was a pretty wonderful time for people, it was hopeful.

I'm recording freely, and if I make a song, I release it immediately, so I'm more likely to believe in one song at a time as opposed to albums.

I set the fashion for a quater of a century. Why? Because i knew how to express my own time.

I'll try anything. I'll do anything. I'll explore. Try different takes.

Innovation is hard to schedule.

The UK is always ahead of their time in music, and America always follows them five years later.

Computers are getting smarter all the time. Scientists tell us that soon they will be able to talk to us. (And by 'they', I mean 'computers'. I doubt scientists will ever be able to talk to us.)

When there's so much left to do, why spend your time focusing on things you've already done, counting trophies or telling stories about the good old days?

I didn't want to make a record that was just guitar and voice, that was just the technology available to me. At the time, I remember thinking, "I am making a Faust album." That didn't translate.

That man is thought a dangerous knave, Or zealot plotting crime, Who for advancement of his kind Is wiser than his time.

The most important lesson of New Labour is this: Every time we made progress we did it by challenging the conventional wisdom.

But for the first time, we haven't made a huge leap forward in sound from our last album. Fans who own Kid A should be able to get their heads around it.

Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto gives us for the first time the hideous notion that there can be music that stinks to the ear.

In my opinion, Louis Armstrong is the greatest trumpet stylist of all time and has influenced every trumpet player of his time and long after

Space or science fiction has become a dialect for our time.

When was the last time you did something for the first time?

Consider spending less time talking, and more time prototyping, especially if you're not very good at talking.

I was a little concerned that a lot of people thought I wrote Merchant Ivory movies. I also thought if I was ever going to write something strange and difficult, that was the time.

As time goes on, I realize more and more that, beginning in the early 30's, David Smith began setting the precedent for what was to come later for many of us.

I wasn't making music for the sake of music but rather making music in the context of other music. At the same time, it doesn't mean I'm not going to try and do that some day.

When it came time to find employment, I set my sights on becoming an engineer at a home electronics manufacturer, a field that was closely related to my major at university.