Quotes About Innovation

I just wanted to make melodies. I started trying to do my own thing and let the melodies make the genre themselves.

Writing beautiful melodies is not fashionable because it is very difficult to do.

The Beatles were a huge influence on me to write really good melodies.

The only way I'm not going to follow other people in reggaeton is if I listen to other things. I get other melodies or sounds and put them in reggaeton and make it different.

I like inventive melodies and chord changes, a little bit of creativity.

I try to find very simplistic melodies, which are the hardest ones to create.

Jim had melodies as well as words. He didn't know how to play a chord on any instrument, but he had melodies in his head. To remember the lyrics he would think of melodies and then they would stay in his head. He had melodies and lyrics in his head, and he would sing them a cappella, and we would eke out the arrangements.

I've always got these little melodies running around in my head, although most of them aren't worth much, and I understand structure and formulas.

Innovating something that is familiar. That's the general approach, and that's what I want to do with the melody as well. It should ring true - you should like every melody sequence without knowing what's happening next.

I don't know how to read music. You pick your guitar, you start playing chords and make up a melody that comes out of your head.

When they write my epitaph, it's going to say, 'Innate Immunotherapeutics, saving millions of lives.' It's not going to be 'member of Congress.'

The way Yes works is when we have a new member come in, as in Jon Davison, it's appropriate that we see what differences we can get out of a new contributing member in order to keep Yes interesting.

I was always making memes, and now I have music.

I hope that memes jump out of our computers in the future.

I create fashion that is memorable.

'The cloud' is effectively an augmentation of our brains' memories.

I have fond memories of the development work that led to a lot of great things in modern gaming - the intensity of the first person experience, LAN and Internet play, game mods, and so on.

I think we're going to have auxiliary hard drives to offload our memories.

As long as I have fashion memories, Schiaparelli has been there.

All of the details that most of us memorize in medical school - you don't have to learn those things. They're going to be in your computer.

We can invent only with memory.

The use of the wearable computer changes with each person. When this device is your way of seeing, or a seeing aid, it's how you see the world. When you use it as a memory aid, it is your brain.

We need more Memphis culture in the industry.

Before 'Memphis,' I had never considered working on a musical. But when Joe DiPietro sent me the script, I heard the entire score in my head.