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Quotes About Innovation

In the lab, we're discovering that nature can do chemistry we never dreamed was possible.
~ Frances Arnold
BuzzFeed started as a lab with a small team where we would play with ideas.
~ Jonah Peretti
Many of the most eloquent people I have ever met work in lab coats every day.
~ Michael Specter
The next Internet could be in the making somewhere in someone's lab.
~ Bernard L. Schwartz
How do you get things out of your head, out of your lab, and into the world? If you're not part of the economic community, there's a chance... you'll fall behind.
~ George M. Church
My lab is the place where I put my brain out on my fingers.
~ Hope Jahren
I was in the lab for a long time before I actually, like, put stuff out.
~ Tierra Whack
I'm driven to get to goals as fast as possible. It frustrates people in my lab who have something they think is cool, but if it doesn't move us forward, I don't want to do it.
~ David Andrew Sinclair
I like the concept of dressing people. I used to not care whether people bought the clothes or not, but I kind of like it now. I wouldn't label that commercialism; it's more like I do this work because I want people to wear it.
~ Alexander McQueen
Before I started Brainfeeder, there were rumblings in our own circle about creating a label for us all. Then I started to see all these other ones from Europe try to capitalise on the scene. It didn't make sense to me that there were all these people who were trying to build on something that was in our backyard.
~ Flying Lotus
Def Jam is an iconic label.
~ Rick Ross
I have my own label and I'm my first artist.
~ Jeff Gutt
All you needed was a couple of instruments and a few chords and you could be on an indie label.
~ David Byrne
I know being on a major label is meant to be antiquated, but we're fine with it.
~ Chris Martin
It is great to have your own label; you can cultivate your own artists... I've worked with pretty much everyone I wanted to.
~ Brian McKnight
Nobody taught me to play bottleneck. I just saw it and taught myself. I got an old bottle and steamed the label off, put it on the wrong finger, I basically did everything wrong until I met some of the Blues legends early in my career who taught me another way. I didn't have anyone to tell me women didn't play bottleneck.
~ Bonnie Raitt
What I learned from the Beastie Boys was to be independent. They set up their own world separate from the label. They built their own studio.
~ Spike Jonze
Attention, it just comes and goes. Since we don't have a major label, it's like, what are we gonna do next? You have to make your own decisions.
~ Yolandi Visser
It's a great place to be as an artist: if you confuse your label, you're doing your job.
~ Kristian Bush
Fashion wasn't a label back in the '70s. We made our own clothes because we had no money.
~ Viv Albertine
Just look at the name of Kanye's label: G.O.O.D. Music. That's what it's all about, creating good music.
~ Mannie Fresh
Unfortunately it's easy to just label us as part of a Laurel Canyon sound. What we try to do is to be unique.
~ Taylor Goldsmith
Major labels don't want to take chances on cooler, indie kind of things. People only know, unfortunately, what they're being spoon-fed.
~ Erick Morillo
Artists are traditionally resistant to labels.
~ Patti Smith