Quotes About Innovation

Musicians tend to get bored playing the same thing over and over, so I think it's natural to experiment.

Designers and musicians are primed to keep thinking forward. Once an album or collection launches, you can only think about doing the next one.

The best musicians or sound-artists are people who never considered themselves to be artists or musicians.

In 1972, I got my first electric bass and started playing the kind of instrument I play now. I found that the majority of musicians couldn't bear that. They are not used to listening to the bass because they think the bass is in the background to support them.

These people are artists. These people are musicians. They're taking it out and trying to express it that way.

Serious musicians are finding it harder and harder to have a voice in the world of music these days.

Well, remember that we were all members of the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians.

I think the best thing an artist can do is not hang out with other artists. I really dislike hanging out with musicians, for the most part, except for a few select friends, because I don't like to talk about music all the time.

In other words, musicians know that going back to the Spoonful, what we were doing was not copying.

Musicians have always adopted Macs.

The studio is really fun because I don't make it into the studio unless I've got something I really like. I love working with different musicians in the studio; that's a real joy, working with someone for the first time.

Why can't jazz musicians just leave a melody alone?

Intense study with Indian musicians such as Gaurav Majumdar and Zakir Hussain has inspired me to rethink my view of instrumental sound.

I think what made John Lennon so exciting as an artist is that, like Dylan and other musicians with a truly important musical legacy, he had several faces, personas that changed over time as he developed.

I'm always trying to think of something clever and fun to do with the music. There's so many cool things musicians and artists can do with their products.

This is what really makes real jazz musicians: people coming out with their own voice.

Certain jazz musicians just copy what was done 100 years ago. The music won't grow if nobody takes a risk.

I can fry hollandaise, I can fry ketchup, I can fry mustard.

I don't want people to think that just because I do club records, I can't do an album record or an R&B single. I can do R&B, I do pop, I do whatever - but it's still Mustard.

If we didn't have genetic mutations, we wouldn't have us. You need error to open the door to the adjacent possible.

Nobody does animation better than Disney; it's just that some of us wanted out of the box. Burton was one. I was another. We were the mutual complaint society.

There no longer can be any doubt that the creation of the first index mutual fund was the most successful innovation - especially for investors - in modern financial history.

Whenever my friend says something cool, and especially if my team says something, like a cool line in English, I'll write it down, and maybe I'll rephrase or use in a different way or something.

No, I don't think my generation got into this dinosaur thing.