Quotes About Innovation

Sheets of sound. Well, that was when I got tired of certain modulations. Like when you want to get back to C, and you've got to go to D and then G and then C. I was fooling around with the piano, and I figured out some other way to do it.

I just loved classical music, but I also loved playing rock guitar, and I loved playing piano, so it was a natural thing that those things would merge at some point.

I wanted to try to write songs on the piano to get a different flavor.

I am so in the past. I'm such a Luddite when it comes to making music. All I can do is write at the piano.

I am such a Luddite when it comes to making music. All I can do is write at the piano.

I had been playing single note instruments and I wanted to hear a guitar played as a piano.

Eliminating the piano means that I've always worked closer with the bass than most players.

In my piano concerto I developed this polyphony to much higher complexity.

I am so happy that I didn't go to school and I didn't have anyone to tell me how to position my fingers on the piano correctly. And what you do with music and what is the correct way to write it and what is not the correct way to write it.

I decided that playing piano was a little bit too common, you know what I mean?

I write my own music. By myself, on a computer, I program guitar and piano.

I grew up with the British-Chicago crossover of house music with a lot of pianos and very heavy bass lines, but what I love about house is you can mix it up a bit.

When I was a kid, we had acoustic guitars, a piano in the house. I made a drum kit out of buckets in my garage.

I write on the acoustic guitar, I write some on the piano, but I've been messing around with these guitar pedals and drum machines, educating myself in that world.

If you force yourself to write away from the piano, you come up with more inventive things. If you're too good a piano player, as some composers are, the music may become flavorless and glib. And if you're not a very good pianist, you're limited to the same patterns.

Lady Gaga is the Picasso of the entertainment world. She's very intelligent.

I think Picasso was, without doubt, the greatest portraitist of the 20th century, if not any other century.

My first influence obviously was Picasso.

I look at people like Picasso and Da Vinci and Escher and Miles Davis, and they'll write or paint that one definitive masterpiece of maybe 50 that they have that's really trying to go outside the box, trying to do something that's tough. And then when you accomplish it, you look back and go, 'Yeeaaaah - masterpiece.'

Our artistic heroes tend to be those self-exercisers, like Picasso, and Nabokov, and Wallace Stevens, who rather defiantly kept playing past dark.

Of course we'd rather not see Picasso teacups and sheets.

Pablo Picasso first entered my consciousness when I was a boy of about eight years old.

You just pick up a chord, go twang, and you're got music.

When you need to make changes, even when people don't want to change, you have to pick the company up and change it, even if it means cannibalizing yourself.