Quotes About Innovation

When I don't have any ideas, I pick up fabric and start working with it and something happens.

He is the king. If it hadn't been for Link Wray and 'Rumble', I would have never picked up a guitar.

When a film like Chris Nolan's Memento cannot get picked up, to me independent film is over. It's dead.

I never picked a bass up before Sabbath started.

When me and Eric did songs back in the day, we didn't go and sit down in front of no A&R. We made our album, and then, when we finished, we handed it in, and then we picked the best song for the first single.

Everyone gives 'Picket Fences' credit for being so willing to delve into issues that now would be no big deal. But it was then. It was ahead of its time.

I'm not always the best at picking out what goes together. I always want to be presentable, but more than that, I want to be different. I've never just wanted to follow the crowd. I think that goes back to when I was a boy. If everyone was doing one thing, I'd do something different.

So I didn't have anything to do with picking the songs, but I got to musically take them in places I thought might be interesting, so it was a real neat collaboration among the three of us.

I love dressing up. I like going out and buying some crazy stuff. I like stuff that's new, innovative and weird. I just pick out stuff that is unique and anything that I'm really diggin'. I don't really care if it's kind of out there. That's what I'm about. I like picking stuff that is really different.

I put together amazing records, whether that's finding the beat or putting the right hook on there, and picking the right artists on the record. That's me being an A&R. And I'm making sure that they give me their best.

Clapton was just picking up ideas. He picked up some of mine like I picked up some from the people before me.

Indie music is picking up and artistes are more confident about putting out music with no big name attached to it.

Before refrigeration, most food was heavily salted. Many of these salted foods have persisted, such as sauerkraut, pickles, cured anchovies, cheese, salted butter, ham, corned beef, sausage, and bacon. We still eat these things because we like them. But they are no longer the mainstay of our diet.

Some people design buildings and aircraft carriers and cars - and I designed picks.

Maybe at the end of the day, instead of a neighbor picking you up, a robot picks you up.

I have problems with guitars, I hammer away at it sometimes and I also do little intimate picks, I'm always looking at new guitars and little extra tweaks and stuff, I like to mix it up a bit.

I've heard stories of pickup bands that can't follow, but here's the thing: If you want to play with Chuck Berry, you listen to his greatest hits and learn the format of the songs, but don't try to play it note-for-note.

Every picture that is successful has one little miracle in it.

It is the framework which changes with each new technology and not just the picture within the frame.

I like making things. I don't like getting my picture taken.

I wouldn't use the same color in a picture in more than one place.

Half of me is very excited and the other half is 'Haven't we seen this stuff before?' But I'm very impressed. I almost couldn't picture it when it was being put together. I couldn't picture it being in my hand, what it would look like.

Basically we just created our own label, but again we just did it to document our own music and create our own thing, so the major labels were just always out of our picture, we're not interested.

I fight for the debunking of the artist and an end to individual pictures.