Quotes About Innovation

I felt that by the late '90s, I'd gone as far as I could with the keyboard.

The idea to do the album only on keyboards kind of happened by accident. I was quite happy with the sound and felt it really didn't need more instruments, so I didn't use them.

That it's a lot harder to make a keyboard sound not-cheesy than a guitar.

Managerial and professional people hadn't really used computers, hadn't sat down at keyboards, until personal computers. Personal computers have a totally different feel.

I used to listen to songs on the radio and play that junk back on that little keyboard.

Ad Rock from the Beastie Boys gave me a present: it's a boombox with a keyboard and a beatbox in it. You can't make that up.

I wanted to be like Pete Townshend or something but there's no way as a keyboard player that you can be flashy, so I decided to go the other way.

Diversification and globalization are the keys to the future.

I have a 15-year-old boy, and we are about to give him car keys, which seems like an act of insanity when you know what you know about 15-year-old boy behavior. But in 2018, we'll have self-driving cars, and it will be so much better. My son may be the last generation of kids who learns to drive.

I think one of the keys is to celebrate intelligent failures and when things don't work, learn from those. Celebrate learning more than we celebrate the failure itself.

Classical music gives musicians a kick. But African music gives everyone a kick.

You get a different kick out of all aspects of filmmaking.

I didn't come from wrestling. I didn't come from boxing or kickboxing.

I kicked down doors to show that Hiphop has matured. And it may be a little controversial.

I like to grow and experiment, and as an artist, it's about kicking the bar up a little.

Dear disgruntled artists: the key to success isn't kicking down the door; it's building your own.

You don't see very many Irish-Cypriot pop-up restaurants kicking about!

I don't want to just go out and do song to song to song. I like to create things before the song actually kicks in, little things you do to excite the crowd.

Nobody wanted to run back kicks until you saw Billy 'White Shoes'' Johnson.

Kickstarter is perfect for us. It wasn't something we heard about and just got to it. We did our research, met with the people at Kickstarter - they are brilliant, and they're excited to work with us.

Jean-Michel Basquiat

As a kid I was creative.

Adults are always asking kids what they want to be when they grow up because they are looking for ideas.

Look at kids playing with blocks. I think it's in everyone's DNA to want to be a builder.