Quotes About Innovation

Lyrics are the only thing to do with music that haven't been made easier technically.

One of the interesting things about having little musical knowledge is that you generate surprising results sometimes you move to places you wouldn't if you knew better.

I make a lot of pieces of music that I never release as CDs.

I'm very good with technology, I always have been, and with machines in general. They seem not threatening like other people find them, but a source of fun and amusement.

Most game music is based on loops effectively.

Once I started working with generative music in the 1970s, I was flirting with ideas of making a kind of endless music - not like a record that you'd put on, which would play for a while and finish.

I'm always interested in what you can do with technology that people haven't thought of doing yet.

You can't really imagine music without technology.

I got interested in the idea of music that could make itself, in a sense, in the mid 1960s really, when I first heard composers like Terry Riley, and when I first started playing with tape recorders.

I think we're about ready for a new feeling to enter music. I think that will come from the Arabic world.

The first Velvet Underground album only sold 10,000 copies, but everyone who bought it formed a band

Well, I am a dilettante. It's only in England that dilettantism is considered a bad thing. In other countries it's called interdisciplinary research.

My interest in making music has been to create something that does not exist that I would like to listen to. I wanted to hear music that had not yet happened, by putting together things that suggested a new thing which did not yet exist.

Honour thy error as a hidden intention.

Regard your limitations as secret strengths. Or as constraints that you can make use of.

Questions for U2: 'What record would you like to make – i.e. how would you like this to be read? How would you like to get there? Does it bother you if the result is 'undemocratic'? How much cheating is allowed? How much me?' Lincoln's axe: 'This is Lincoln's original axe. The head has been replaced three times and the handle twice.

Not to mince words Mr. Epstein, we don't like your boys' sound. Groups of guitarists are on the way out.

She told them: the hardest part is to start over by building something new.

When kids look up to great scientists the way they do to great musicians and actors, civilization will jump to the next level

The first step in innovation is to know that a thing can be created. After that, the rest is a matter of detail.

Without wonder, there's no progress. Nothing gets done, nobody goes anywhere. If you don't exercise your capacity for wonder... well, use it or lose it. A civilization without wonder is a civilization that's starting to atrophy and die.

Sometimes it seems as if the best technology is still only catching up to what nature has already figured out.

Lucas wasn't paying for a movie; he was buying his own creative freedom.

This guy was like a sailor who had studied the compass and found that there was a fifth direction in which one could sail." (Jerry Juhl on being offered a job with Muppets, Inc.)