Quotes About Innovation

Even when I wrote death metal songs for a death metal record, I was always trying to do my best to make it as catchy as possible because that's how I like music.

I was very limited in what I could do with flying saucers, because they're just a metal disc. I had to try and put character in as if they were intelligently guided.

Guitar Player Magazine says Dick Dale is the father of Heavy Metal, blowing up 48 amplifiers, creating the first power amplifier.

Give metal a chance!

Black Sabbath invented heavy metal, in my opinion.

I always say, 'This will be my last 'Metal Gear.'

I think if you're trying to be funny, sometimes you're bending a piece of metal in a direction it doesn't want to go. And sometimes comedy just needs to find itself.

If you write a country song, and it's the best song you've ever written but throw it out because you're a metal band, you'd be an idiot.

We didn't say, 'Hey, we're gonna pick a bunch of cover songs,' or, 'We're gonna write an original song that has to sound like this, because we're a metal band, so we're gonna cover some metal songs.' We did the opposite. We just said, 'We're gonna have fun with these songs, and we're gonna try different things.'

I just think that a metal band covering a bunch of metal songs is so boring, so 'done before.'

'Epicloud' is the first record that I felt confident enough to include all those things on one record, so it goes between melodic hard rock to schizophrenic heavy metal to country to really ambient stuff, and it's all in one place.

Basically, death metal, as a musician on my part, it just changed everything as far as the technicality and where you could take music.

What I do is a bit broader in scope than a heavy metal band like Iron Maiden, Motorhead, ACDC and so on.

We believe that many people who already like metal and those who like other genres will be accepting to this new type of metal.

Without Metallica, we wouldn't have a lot of the bands that we have now.

In a lot of ways, Metallica is like a fusion band. It's not necessarily jazz or any of that, but the music is grooving.

Neodymium is one of 17 'rare-earth metals,' and these elements have turned out to be critical to the rapidly-growing green technology industries.

Scientists have to have a metaphor. All scientists start with imagination.

The cloud, for a while more of a metaphor than a giant business, is re-ordering all sorts of industries.

Improvisation is a compositional method.

I think there is always going to be inspired music and there are always going to be inspired listeners and there is always going to be an inspired method of getting it from A to B.

In fact it's quite gratifying for me to see some of the people who really objected to this method of working now being quite so profligate in their use of it.

You can find a product and be aware of all the other products out there in just seconds. That's a very attractive method for companies and consumers. At the same time, it also creates a lot of competition.

I think England has to change the way they are teaching football because football is changing, and the method isn't changing as much.