Quotes About Innovation

Genius is sorrow's child.

You know, I feel sorry for the young artists.

Indiana Jones is old school; we've moved on from Indy. Sorry, Harrison Ford.

It's difficult to imagine the power that you're going to have when so many different sorts of data are available.

Each record is sort of like a brand new baby, where it's your favorite thing at that moment in time.

Avant-garde music is sort of research music. You're glad someone's done it but you don't necessarily want to listen to it.

I think that, on the whole, risk-taking entrepreneurial characters regard nature as a sort of background that we can use for our own advantage.

I am hopelessly devoted to paper. Nothing against e-readers of any sort - anything that keeps people reading is okay by me - but I am not, historically, an early adopter of such things.

We can create any sort of flavor on a printed image that we set our minds to.

I think that's one of the biggest problems in rock is people thinking too much, putting too much emphasis on getting things perfect or completely sorted out. Sometimes that sound of not having everything sorted out is kind of cool.

It's funny; in fashion, you can never relax and feel like it's all sorted. Every season, you have to give yourself a challenge and come up with something new and fresh.

At a certain point, you have to take the rearview mirrors off the bus and focus forward, and that's what we've sought to do.

The element of truth in the concept of genius is to be sought in the object, in what is open, not confined by repetition.

For better or worse, I've always been curious musically. Whether it's opera or Judy Garland or pop, I've deliberately sought those things out. I've never wanted to do the same things over and over. Some think I've accomplished what I set out to do, and others consider me a dilettante.

I had been doing MP3 players and handheld computers since 1990-1991, and so they sought me out because of my experience. And about 18 generations of iPod and three generations of iPhone later, I decided to leave Apple.

The heart and soul of the company is creativity and innovation.

Alternative R&B is in my soul. It's not going anywhere.

The '70s and '80s were just the period during which the best soul music was created and the best records were done.

The biggest inspiration I had was to take norteno soul music and fuse it with Mexican music. It was my great big idea to do that.

Soul music as we've always known it hasn't changed. There are different players now with different attitudes, but there is nothing new being done musically.

Dilla was a John Coltrane-type dude. He was always on a higher level. He inspired my music to become looser and more soulful.

I believe in the old, because it shows us where we come from - where our souls have risen from. And I believe in the new, because it gives us the opportunity to create who we are becoming.

I wouldn't want everybody to be an art or literature major, but the world would be poorer - figuratively, anyway - if we were all coding software or running companies. We also want musicians to awaken our souls, writers to lead us into fictional lands, and philosophers to help us exercise our minds and engage the world.

In 'Demon's Souls,' we tried to implement some features in a kind of experimental way, not being sure whether or not it would be popular, but we did it anyway so that we could see how people reacted.