Quotes About Innovation

Something is missing in our culture. We can't quite celebrate the scientific literary tradition.

I guess the big thing to say about 'Pig Farm' is that none of us knows if it works, and we're going in blind. It's in the tradition of 'Urinetown,' kind of - but that's a pretty small tradition. It's possible that it can fail.

Coco Chanel was always doing things with ballet, so it is a tradition clashing fashion and ballet.

Nobody says you have to be shackled to tradition.

A lot of young musicians in Stockholm are about keeping tradition alive and moving it forward at the same time.

With the advent of radio and recording, music became an industry rather than just a tradition.

The place where I think social media fails is in showing the knowledge, the tradition of stitching the clothing, of cutting the fabric, of the tannery, of the skinning of the jewels - this knowledge needs respect. Online and social media is the future, but we need to learn from the past, too.

If you're always thinking about someone else's work, about the tradition you're working in, how can you possibly make anything good?

Mehmet was the first sultan, and one of the first Muslims anywhere, to defy religious tradition by allowing his portrait to be made.

I do not come out of a literary tradition.

All experiment is made on a basis of tradition; all tradition is the crystallization of experiment.

I noticed that people were craving a way of reinterpreting tradition and of being Jewish without joining a synagogue.

I don't care how inventive you are; once you introduce strings into the ensemble for a horror film, you're entering into a world where a tradition has been thoroughly established. So it's repeated use over the years is like, 'Oh God, another film with strings, another spooky movie with strings.'

All art becomes history as soon as it is made, so it is inevitably part of a tradition. It doesn't matter a toss if it is in paint or in film; it is all art.

Since the founding of quantum mechanics in the 1920s, theoretical physics had nurtured an extremely radical tradition.

I feel like I'm a torchbearer for jazz, fostering its tradition but its future, too.

There's no dancer alive better than those of the 1950s and 1960s. It's only the energy that changes. Every now and then, someone like me comes along, and people say, 'Oh, this guy is this new thing.' But that's not so. There is no me without them. The tradition just goes on.

I am very aware that I'm the product of growing up in England and the tradition of designing and making, of England industrialising first.

From my own perspective, I value productivity more than tradition, but the customs of the House evolve slowly.

It's good to be progressive, but don't shun the good things about tradition.

I started writing music as a composer in school, in the classical tradition.

It never occurred to me that artists, of all people, have to be reminded that instinct is more important than tradition, but in our industry, people seem to forget that sometimes.

Technology allows us to do many things, but it is always important to combine it with traditional handcrafts and, in fact, use technology to replicate dying arts so that they are not lost.

A lot of chefs are traditional and do it very well. But the ones who are the most successful are the ones who change things. That is why someone like Heston Blumenthal is a genius.