Quotes About Innovation

Obviously, you want to honour the sound of your music, but I'm definitely open to trying new things and making myself use a different palette of sounds.

I don't have one song that sounds like another one in my entire catalog.

The thing that's good about Hip Hop is that it has experimented with a lot of different sounds and music.

Hip hop minus plugged sounds can be a very different experience.

I love trying new things and experimenting with instruments and sounds.

I wanted to make sounds that I'd never heard before.

Dance is merging with the more mainstream hip hop/R&B scene, and there will be new ideas and sounds.

My thing is you just have to try to feel young and stay young. Obviously you get a little older, but I still want my music to be young. I don't want to sound like an old dad onstage, so you just have to write music that sounds young.

It's not easy to sound like Dilla, but you can make beats like Dilla with your computer, so that's why everybody sounds like Dilla.

As cliched as it sounds, if you have an original voice and an original idea, then no matter what anybody says, you have to find a way to tell that story.

Experimenting with different sounds is great, but when it comes down to it, you're still playing a guitar.

I play the way I do because it allows me to come up with the sickest sounds possible. That's the point now isn't it?

With 'Scratch,' our goal is to allow people to mix together all kinds of media, not just sounds, in creative ways. We want people to start from existing materials - grabbing an image, grabbing some sound, maybe even bits of someone else's program, and then extending them and mixing them to make them their own.

It was Skrillex who got me into dubstep. He made it melodic - not just a bunch of crazy sounds.

I usually create sounds and have different generators running over it. You know you can open a word-file as a picture or the other way round. I do the same with sounds.

Lonnie was ahead of his time, but at the same time he was right in there with Albert Collins's Cool Sounds.

I'm better for it and I prefer to keep things simple and see what sounds I can get out of my head and hands rather than relying on a sound that someone else created.

I am producing sounds that people are not used to hearing from the harp.

God would have to beam into me what I was doing and what the album actually sounded like because usually when I start a project like that, I already know what the album sounds like before I start it.

This sounds horribly pretentious, but I like to think that if music hadn't existed, I could have invented it.

Just trying to be different - when I hear something - I don't like to go trampling on other people's sounds.

Maybe a part of me recognized how right the improvising spirit of jazz is. Not the sounds, but the freedom to work with musicians who work that way. It felt very natural to me, but I think there's a way to do it without it being a jazz record.

It doesn't really matter to me what the rest of country is doing. I'm not caught up in trying to make a record that sounds like everybody else. That, to me, is a record label's absolute biggest downfall.

When you're listening to radio and hear the same 20 songs over and over and over, you want a break from it. Sometimes you don't want to hear something that sounds just like everything else on the radio. Eventually, if you hear the same sounds and the same musicians and the same mixes and all of that, it will start to sound like elevator music.