Quotes About Innovation

I wish there was something where you could blink an eye and be somewhere. I'm a very nervous flier. I wish we could get from point A to point B instantly.

I was never so directly inspired by fashion. It always came from somewhere else.

If companies don't think systemically enough - if they try to capture too much of the value - eventually, innovation moves somewhere else.

I was heavily influenced by Melle Mel, Kool Moe Dee, Grandmaster Caz, but I kind of wanted to take it somewhere else.

I agree completely with my son James when he says 'Internet is like electricity. The latter lights up everything, while the former lights up knowledge'.

My son is a hip-hop producer.

Even though we try not to be nostalgic about drawing from old music, I'm always inspired by things like old Cole Porter songs or the words in the Gershwin songs or even Stephen Sondheim, where there's a real craft to them but it isn't only that you're hearing the words it's that it links so well with the music.

Music is a continuous process. You evolve with every song.

It is quite normal these days to record a song in the absence of the composer.

When I write, I don't really focus on duets or anything like that or whether I'm going to feature this or that rapper. I just focus on just making a great song and figure out the rest later.

I don't think a song should be put in a category.

Once I come up with the concept, the rest of the song just comes.

Any one thing can get in the way of you and your brain being comfortable and being inspired. It's the difference between a really big song and a song that never existed.

In blues music, there's a lot of borrowing, so it's often difficult to identify the originator of a song.

One of the most amazing things about 'Crazy Ex-Girlfriend' is that every song is an original. There are no covers. I think 'Glee' had to deal with forcing covers into their plotlines. That can be difficult to pull off.

'Fade To Black' - just this amazing construct: a song that defied the definition of what Metallica was perceived to be at the time.

I had this song called Helter Skelter, which is just a ridiculous song. So we did it like that, 'cuz I like noise.

By the time one song gains popularity, another one is introduced.

If I sample a song, I usually make samples out of the whole album. Then I move on after that. Doesn't mean I'm going to release that whole album, but I do that.

I am one of the few singers who has reinvented oneself with every song.

I think that every song has to be like it could be the biggest hit of my album.

For us, we make a song, and if we like it, it goes on a record.

My favorite period is when we lived in the land of the three-minute song. The Motown thing - I thought they were genius in knowing that's as much as a listener can take.

In future also, we would like to back films that can be considered slightly risky since they don't have song and dance.