Quotes About Innovation

We're thinking of creating a board of experts across the sectors of industry, to identify successful programs and to make recommendations about programs that are working and aren't working.

I decided to combine my musical background, business education and creative abilities - and go into the record business.

I had this big thing about guitar harmonies. I wanted to be the first to put proper three-part harmonies onto a record. That was an achievement.

Immediately after the Floyd experience, I became a pop record producer.

A record isn't like a movie - you can get it together pretty fast.

If there's going to be another Misfits record, I'd probably have to write the stuff.

I think it's important to evolve and make a different record every time as an artist.

My next baby will be my new record.

Every 15, 20, 25 years, a new rock and roll record needs to come out and a new rock and roll band needs to come out.

After 'Mosaic,' I think a lot of people didn't know what my next record was going to be. And that's what I love. I just love doing music because I'm not going to follow the patterns and formulas of Music Row.

People in the record business would say, Well, Pras, you know, you haven't been out in a while, maybe you should get today's hottest producer or rapper to do something.

With 'Elect the Dead,' I learned how to make a rock record without a rock band and make the rock record I've always wanted to make.

You have to shelve a lot of your inspiration. There's only so much you can do with one record.

When we start to write for a new record, we never really know what we're doing. We don't come into the room with a set of ideas, but miraculously, a song comes out of it.

The record companies didn't want 'Stony Road,' and it ended up being a gold album. They didn't want 'Blue Guitars,' and we did 165,000 books.

Stop doing what the record companies are doing and do what's in your heart.

I don't think that old-fashioned idea of record companies exists any more.

Record companies don't think creatively about what something could possibly be because they are not filled with creative people. Nobody's looking at the future of music because they're concentrating so hard on what they can get from it right this second. It's really hard to see an artist; it's a lot easier to see money.

Record companies, they're just like lemmings.

People don't really buy records anymore, so record companies won't invest in bands like us. They want cookie-cutter acts.

I wanted to produce Nancy LaMott's albums, so I created my own record company.

My number one goal is to take over the music business and run a really great record company.

People thought we were crazy for starting a record company. They really thought I was shooting myself in the foot.

You got to understand: when you go into a record company and give them a something that doesn't sound like what's on the radio, it's hard to sell it.