Quotes About Innovation

I had been building electronic musical instruments since I was a kid.

My dream artists to collaborate with are probably Cee Lo Green and Imogen Heap. They're completely out of my genre but they're both musical geniuses.

I don't want to do free jazz! Because free jazz - which is the musical equivalent of free marketeering - isn't actually free at all. It's just constrained by what your muscles can do.

I think that if you're doing a new musical, you want to have the opportunity to experiment and try things without the whole city of critics looking over your shoulder.

One thing is certain: We can't go back. The musical will never be the same as it was.

I don't think there's a defined contemporary American musical, do you?

I like to originate new roles and characters for musical theater.

I really did start a whole way of thinking about musical theater.

In the world of musical theatre, if everyone says it's a good idea, you wonder why nobody has done it before.

My intentions have been, and are always, to just really get behind what my ideas are musically and to just ride this thing out, cause it feels good, and I think for the most part it's good music. Even when it's not, I'd like to still search for something that could be even like a little bit mind-blowing or shocking to me.

But you can't extend, or go beyond any point musically, without the basic fundamentals.

Our first radio single, 'The Stage,' was eight-and-a-half minutes long. Unabashedly, we wanted to push the limits musically, lyrically, and instrumentation-wise.

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

I've always been into computers. When I was getting out of high school and forming my identity musically, all of it was really coming into the fold, computers and drum machines. It felt like, you know, I'm in the right place at the right time. I liked the collision.

I've never wanted to be put into a box, not musically.

Once I write something, I never try to write that same style again, because I get very schizophrenic musically.

Everything musically, for me, there's two kinds of music. There's Prince and Jimi Hendrix and then Miles Davis and everything filters through that.

Twenty-fourteen is all about growth musically and new agendas.

I want to be Kanye and do what he does musically. I'm very fearless.

Musically, I always wanted to experiment.

'Superunknown' was one of the most dramatic shifts in what we were doing musically. I don't think I realized it at the time.

We want to push boundaries musically if we can and come at things from a different direction.

I like living on that edge, musically. I like a bit of insecurity and that feeling of not really knowing what's going to happen.

I love Kanye, I love what he does musically, I love his ability to push the envelope.