Quotes About Innovation

One other thing, if it's possible, as songwriters, you should also develop yourself as record producers.

I'm probably much more influenced by film-makers and painters than I am by other songwriters or poets.

That's what we get to do as songwriters, right? You get to explore stuff.

There are phrases that are totally cliche that we, as songwriters, owe it to ourselves to not use again.

There are so many songwriters that people don't know about. There's so many producers that people don't know about.

Queen had incredible songwriters.

Most of the best songwriters that ever lived couldn't read music.

Chuck Berry invented rock 'n' roll. He was one of the best songwriters of the 20th century.

I'm getting bored performing the same songs over and over. Songwriting comes and goes.

The best songwriting comes from being as creative as you can and editing it down to the good bits, essentially.

Great songwriting will never die - it's in the DNA of music - but what's new and exciting is pairing that with new sounds that technology is enabling us to make.

I mean Gorilla was really our first sort of goes at songwriting.

There's a big gaping hole in the EDM space for songwriting. It's one thing to learn how to be a great sound designer and become big just on sound design. Especially if you're in the dubstep category, it's like, how much fatter and more interesting can you make those drops.

The new generation of musicians is writing music on computers, and this is very sad because the quality of songwriting has crashed and dived. There are some songs out that are made by only one guy who works a computer and doesn't play any instruments.

My songwriting, when I'm writing, is nothing like it is in its finished form - but you have to start somewhere.

I've been really trying to hone the art of songwriting in a way that doesn't follow any sort of guideline.

I don't really know that there's any real rules for songwriting.

Think back to the early rock n' roll records, and the average record length in the '50s - and well into the '60s - was two and a half minutes. It's very hard to put that much songwriting into two and a half minutes.

I'm just getting back into my songwriting groove. It's still pretty early. But I don't want to make 'Hero 2.' It's going to be different.

I think women gravitate toward me because I am a woman producing and songwriting, and there's none out there. There really isn't.

All of our albums are actually pretty similar, it's just the production that's different. Our songwriting is always the same.

With animated film, you have to create the sonic world; there's nothing there. You get to color things in more and you're allowed to overreach yourself a little bit more, and it's great fun.

Every kid has a laptop; everyone can make music, so in order to stand out, I think it's important to find that sonic identity, I think my sonic identity - and mine is finding these weird sounds that may not necessarily sound that musical, and make them sound musical.

My idea is to take the improvisational excitement that takes place with Carnatic music and juxtapose that in different sonic contexts.