Quotes About Innovation

For 'Lonerism,' I really wanted make a non-psychedelic record. That's why the dominant instrument is the synthesiser, but maybe it didn't quite turn out that way.

As a musician, as a horn player, sometimes I even get bored listening to all instrumental music.

I really feel like I've written my most effective music in the instrumental realms.

The values we developed were instrumental in gaining a competitive advantage.

With something like 'Second Sun' it was something I'd never really done before. It has no drums and I think that was the first time I'd done this sort of instrumental, bass-less kind of piece.

I have to hear more live instrumentation, more band and more funk, and I don't hear enough of it, so I created it myself.

The way I make music is often to kind of treat instrumentation like I would a sample.

I love playing instruments that I don't know how to play or am not familiar with. I like the idea of danger and innocence that comes from it. As an artist, I feel I should be able to do something with anything I get my hands on. The music becomes minimalist because of my limited knowledge.

The beautiful thing about working with new instruments is that you sort of approach it with a fresh perspective.

It's cool to have instruments lying around because they give you different ideas.

I play no instruments.

The most exciting science requires the most complex instruments.

I thought it would be interesting to play classical music on rock instruments.

BlackBerrys are divine instruments.

There are a whole bunch of instruments I'd like to build.

I would love to have a song that fusions western arrangement with classic Indian instruments.

The 'Discovery' album is really complex and really rich and really full of instruments, different parts and stuff.

You can get insular with fashion.

I know it's dangerous to say you want to do something different with a genre because people always take that as an insult to the genre.

Insurance companies as they exist today are going to be eliminated.

When the Internet was first - as an experiment and then when it - as it mushroomed, security was never an integral part of what the Internet was designed for. I mean, it just didn't - wasn't a consideration.

You have to make a decision whether it's a new product or you integrate it with an existing product. It takes time to work these things out.

The general message is about a bigger global integrated economy is going to lead to faster growth, that policy could improve efficiency by getting more research going.

There will never be a day where the depth of integration, unless it was all built from the bottom ground up, will be integrated as any of us would like.