Quotes About Innovation

You can't help but have ideas when you're inspired musically.

Nothing I'm doing musically is revolutionary in any way, shape, or form.

I know they call it the British Invasion, but musically, I call it the British Infusion.

It's always my mission to try to do something that hasn't been done before, whether that's musically, lyrically or in terms of mixing.

I can remember arguing for two days with Mark Saunders about 'Strugglin'.' He said: 'This can't work. It's not musically correct.' And I said: 'If I can hear it in my brain you can't tell me it can't work.'

What musicals need is a new me.

That's what I think musicals will come to. No backstage stories, nothing of that sort.

Acting, musicals, bringing out an album - not many people have done that. Anthony Newley, Barbra Streisand?

When you make new musicals, you have the great freedom and the great burden that it can be changed.

Most of Broadway is based on a movie or a book. You don't see many original musicals.

You go to a musical; you are deafened by them, with everything blown up. I remember musicals when they didn't use microphones.

I absolutely love working on musicals, but anytime I finish a project, I want to move on to something completely different.

I kind of feel like with a musical, there's so few original musicals that people just don't know what to expect.

If it weren't for the Beatles, I would not be a musician.

I don't consider myself a musician. I'm an artist.

A rock musician's career is short-lived. To extend it, you need to do other things to keep yourself fresh.

When you're a musician and you break new ground it resonates into the common consciousness.

If I get an idea for a song, I have a melody for it. I'm a musician first. I'm not limited by the fretboard.

If you're a musician and an artist, you don't just stop.

What I have to do as a musician is do everything that is not on the music.

So I don't think of myself as just a musician at all, I think of myself as an artist.

To do an extreme metal record is something that is well within my capacity as a musician to write stuff out of the box, write stuff that's probably more extreme than the band I'm in at the present time, and it's something that needs to come out of me one way or another.

Chuck Berry told me if it wasn't for Louis Jordan, he wouldn't have probably ever even got into music. That Louis Jordan changed everything and made him want to become a musician.

Ornette Coleman is a real musician. He takes all of the things he's thinking about in the world - which is a whole universe upon universe - and translates this into music.