Quotes About Innovation

My students frequently ask what their next project should be. My advice: immerse yourself in the music you love and you will find what you want to do; you will discover your next project.

Somehow, you realize you can kind of do anything in music. You don't have to be good at a certain thing; you can just do whatever you want.

You can put out an album and it could be totally out of the window as far as what you want to do performance-wise.

In the enterprise you want to start intentionally small.

My existence is about making movies, so I've just got to rock and roll with the punches. You want to make movies on telephones, I'm there.

These are the times when a genius wants to live.

It's impossible having five, six, seven people in a room being creative together and not fight, because you want to fight. It's the only way creativity works, if you all put your ideas in.

The time is just right to take risks and tell stories the way we want to tell them.

Each year, more people want to become artists.

I think fiction writers write what they do because no one else has written it and they want to read it.

Market leaders inevitably slip into decline when they tell the people what they want instead of giving the people what they want.

The first step, and the thing that everyone has to do right on the Internet is make something people want.

When a band first comes along, they should be confusing and doing something people don't accept. You don't want the first reaction to just be, "Oh, I get that."

As far as behind the scenes, I absolutely want to get into making my own films and producing my own things.

I've never made the separation between, say, the museum and the hardware store. I mean, I enjoy both of them, and I want to combine the two.

Paintings are too hard. The things I want to show are mechanical. Machines have less problems. I'd like to be a machine, wouldn't you?

Usually one or two things happen: Either you have an idea straightaway - the sort of sound that you want or the instrumentation or one particular sound that you want to feature - or you don't.

People's relationship to what they want from theatre is changing. People, including me, are still looking for the next STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE. And people can't or won't write that anymore.

I think anyone who makes products has this simultaneous joy and, almost, shame looking at it. You look at it all day and all you can see is all these things you want to make better.

As a creative person, you want to start with a blank canvas.

I'd like 'Morning News' to become a great first edition electronic newspaper, so that the 'New York Times' will want to watch us.

People that don't want to get down to the business at hand. Instead of just doing less, we have to find ways of doing more with less. That's the key to the future.

Graphite also absorbs the shock of a hit. The first (graphite) clubs that came out were too flexible, but now you can get them to be just as firm as you want and need.

People try to make a big deal, like I don't want to play my old songs. That's not it. I don't want to play my old songs if that's my only option. That's a different thing.