Quotes About Innovation

A lot of the people who have come to know the company in the last few years will not have seen this piece.

Obviously I always wanted to do a contemporary piece.

I always conceive a piece as a different set of challenges.

I'm an inveterate note taker - I scribble all these things down on pieces of paper. I wanted to create some way of organizing all of them.

A lot of the work in United States is highly critical of technology. I'm using 15,000 watts of power and 18 different pieces of electronic equipment to say that.

I'm not likely to forget where I've been and what I've done and learned. I think it's just as important to play new instruments as to play new pieces. The old ones are getting scarcer and the new ones more and more wonderful.

If you look at any creative person's work, you can see bits and pieces of their influences. That's what an artist does.

Everybody who worked in film misses holding pieces of film, holding it up to the light, and seeing exactly where something was image-wise.

I have done some short pieces that are not horror.

It had a very good arrangement by Herbie Hancock, but it used existing pieces.

A large part of my work has been collaborating with composers; I think we've commissioned about 140 pieces now, a lot of them percussion concertos.

Once you put something like 'The A-Team' on the map, it does become part of the DNA of television. People grab little pieces of it. I certainly grabbed little pieces of other people's shows when I was creating my shows.

Designers were saying to me that they didn't have a place to sell their special pieces from the runway.

I did a production called 'Classical Savion,' where I did some Shostakovich, Mendelssohn, Bach, Vivaldi, and all these great pieces.

I want to write theater pieces, opera, or some kind of amalgamation where there is singing, music and theater.

I've written songs on everything. Menus. Napkins. Little pieces of paper.

Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.

We're kind of a guinea pig generation.

The only difference between a pigeon and the American farmer today is that a pigeon can still make a deposit on a John Deere.

I would never pigeon hole myself stylistically because I just don't know what I am going to want to do next.

That's the beauty of Black Eyed Peas, we don't pigeonhole ourselves into just one category. We're the chameleons of hip-hop.

R&B needs to see a new light. It doesn't have to be pigeonholed.

I do not want myself to be restricted to a pigeonholed kind of filmmaker.

We're going to be focusing our science on things that will take us farther and longer into space. For many of those experiments, the crew members are human guinea pigs, which is fine; that's part of my job. I don't mind being a human guinea pig.