Quotes About Innovation

I look at American movies, the big muscles, and try to apply that to Chinese film-making.

My muse is the digital world.

I never know if I'm the builder or architect. The role shifts all the time. But what I have come to conclude is that the script is the muse.

The idea for The Muse came from my own life, from a product that I wanted but couldn't find anywhere. Sometimes when you see a need for something in your own life and you can't get it, you feel crazy enough to make it happen yourself.

When my first record came out, it was in the middle of the real Muse, Keane, British thing, and that beat-driven thing wasn't really that cool at the moment.

In the TV business, you've got to write fast, and someone will tell you, 'Can you rewrite this episode before... 6 P.M.?' So that's when you rewrite it. You can't wait for the muse to show up.

We have listened too long to the courtly Muses of Europe.

It's amazing to be an incubator. Many of my muses have gone on to other brands.

My most famous show is the 'Kitchen Show.' More famous than any gallery show or museum show I curated.

Late 20th century music was a really important thing. It changed the world, and I'm part of that, and now I'm part of the museum that celebrates that.

I don't want music to be a museum.

It was never my desire to revolutionize fashion, to make clothes that could be in a museum. I want to create clothes that have a certain style, but I want to see them used. I want to see people enjoy the things I've made.

I might want to open a hotel and design all the rooms. Or maybe a museum that lets me curate all the events.

The Barbara Hepworth museum in St. Ives is fascinating. Her achievements were astonishing.

Of course I believe imaginative architecture can make a difference to people's lives, but I wish it was possible to divert some of the effort we put into ambitious museums and galleries into the basic architectural building blocks of society.

Kraftwerk has become historic and is now exposed in museums.

More and more, museums will look at restaurants and chefs differently - as if they are curating art.

Great music is great music. It doesn't matter what genre it belongs.

Historically, black music has influenced other cultures and other genres and created other genres.

I think that's where the music business is where it is today because at one point, we were just splurging so much money and it was just extra. Everything was just extra and over did. Now, people are being as creative as they were but they're not spending $500,000 or a million on a video.

I think there is a big difference between the music business and music. And my relationship is to music, not music business. I think the business will keep changing, but music won't. Music will be there.

I want to be a little bit brave. I want to feel scared sometimes. That's what's going to change the music business, if we have that kind of attitude.

There is music out there that is commercially driven, whether you like it or not. That's a peculiarly American innovation. We innovated the commercial music business.

We're not going to change the world or the music business.