Quotes About Innovation

I think that people should learn about that. In most music, there's one way that you do something, and that's the only way. In jazz, it's a lot different.

The day of the great jazz improviser who doesn't know how to read music is over.

For years, Jazz At The Philharmonic albums were the only ones of their kind.

After I exhausted the blues thing, I got into jazz.

Jazz was uplifted by what I did.

The only element of jazz that I keep is improvisation.

Film in the 20th century, it's the American art form, like jazz.

There is a modern take on certain things you can do that, to me, is still jazz.

If you really dissect hip-hop you will find a whole lot of Charles Mingus, Ron Carter, Ahmad Jamal, a lot of classic jazz samples in there.

I like the idea of an eclectic approach, incorporating jazz with other forms and other genres of music.

I use a lot of tunings because I listen to a lot of jazz.

When I was coming up, a lot of serious jazz players couldn't stand funk.

I guess certain kinds of jazz music could be Crunk. But the average jazz song, no, it's not Crunk.

Truth of the matter is, jazz is American music. And that doesn't mean bebop. Jazz is really about improvising. All the music that's been created in America has been pretty much improvised... Whether it's hillbilly or rock n' roll for blues, it's basically jazz music... It's basically about another way of hearing what comes out of America.

There's so much jealousy in our business. They don't like anything new or different. They don't like change.

When you have new jeans, you don't like the ones you just wore. It's crazy, but that's fashion.

I would like Madewell jeans to be the Levi's of its generation.

I live in the 20th century. I have copper rivets on my jeans.

The main rhythmic loop in 'Alaska' is me just patting on my jeans.

People like Jeff Buckley, the Mars Volta and Bjork made me listen to music differently. You learn the voice is an instrument you can do crazy things with.

Jeff always had a huge part in making a song a record. You felt like you were capturing lightning in the studio. It was never boring. He always was there to serve the song.

My influences were Little Richard and Jerry Lee Lewis and Chuck Berry.

We'd play the American bases and found all these wonderful records by Elvis, Jerry Lee Lewis, Fats Domino, Sam Cooke. Without American music, there would not have been a British Invasion.

We look up to Jessica Alba. I loved that something bothered her, and she created products around it and built an empire around it.