Quotes About Innovation

My parents thought I was crazy. When I graduated, you didn't hear of basketball players going to Japan. Everyone went to Europe somewhere.

When you go to Japan, there is such a talent shortage that the debate about AI taking jobs is almost non-existent. The debate is, how can we automate this so we can get all the work done?

I was the first person to export Teflon-coated ironing board covers to Japan.

I have a huge amount of respect for all Japanese designers because I think there is consistency and respect to craft.

The Japanese actually approach the music on a high level. It's always been on a high level.

You talk about Japanese technocracy and you get radios.

For many years, my favorite director has been the Japanese giant Akira Kurosawa.

It's true that I pick up many ideas from different Japanese things.

It's a tough line, Japanese and western games. We wanted to blur that line.

Japanese people can feel some attachment in what they are making, whether it is a car or a TV or a computer.

I've never worked with the Java community.

After all, C++ isn't a perfect match for Java's design aims either.

Jay Prince was instrumental in everything that came out of Rap-a-Lot, especially anything that had to do with the Geto Boys or Scarface.

I stopped writing lyrics down on paper after me and Jay-Z did 'Money In the Bank.' They're something I just hold in my mind.

A lot of times, we look at jazz in eras. How can we not keep those eras separate and think of the language as one complete continuum? It's all interrelated, and it's all evolutionary.

It's like jazz: You learn the rules to break them - as long as you can break them in a meaningful way.

I want to expand jazz; I don't want to keep the audience limited. I want to reach people who have never come to a jazz concert before. One way to do that is by making records that have a lot of different kinds of music on them.

My music is jazz.

I don't know how much more what I've done is any more important than what Ella Fitzgerald did. Ella crossed those lines, as did George Benson before me. There've been lots of people who brought a pop audience to jazz because they were able to link the two and give people easy access to the world of jazz.

Artie Shaw was way ahead of most clarinetists and most jazz players.

By its very nature, no one person can ever be the center of jazz.

The way that I got involved with microtonal music was, frankly, through jazz.

Jazz is a very accurate, curiously accurate accompaniment to 20th century America.

One thing I like about jazz is that it emphasized doing things differently from what other people were doing.