Quotes About Innovation

The lead singer for Deerhunter, Bradford Cox... I don't like saying people are geniuses or whatever, but I just think that dude is so good at every single thing he does. He stays within his genre, but I think he does so well experimenting with stuff.

The challenge remains a simple one: to write news that stays news.

You can do so much crazy stuff with books that isn't necessarily being done. That's how culture stays alive - by doing new things with it.

I want to be someone who takes risks but also stays engaged by trying new things.

Every now and again, something will pop into my head when I'm driving or I'm in the shower, you'll just get an image and it stays with you. It doesn't have to be much, it doesn't have to be a story, it could just be an image. But it won't leave your head and that's when you know you've got something.

There's a steady forward march of a creative process that some of us stay with and don't give up - that should be an admirable thing - from Louis Armstrong to Charlie Parker to Miles to Ornette and some people who are not even known today - some kids coming up - people who are out to change the world.

It's pretty rare in jazz to have a full-on steady band.

We are all enormously indebted to the National Science Foundation of the United States and the American public for steady support over close to 50 years.

I'm steady trying to make this bounce stuff mainstream and do some wonderful and great things for the culture of New Orleans.

Enough of the formulaic stuff. I am not saying pot-boilers are going to stop coming, but there should be other quality-centric films to off-set them, to maintain a steady balance.

How many ways can you cut a steak? How many ways can a chord go? I've been in this business so long, I know how to cut it.

I steal from every movie ever made.

You have to steal a lot. You have to have a criminal mentality to be a film director.

Immature artists imitate. Mature artists steal.

If I could steal someone's dream myself, I'd have to go for one of Orson Welles.

Good poets borrow; great poets steal.

I don't invest in ideas because ideas are a dime a dozen. I could steal the idea pretty quickly.

We need to be held to a higher standard because digital currency is so new and interesting and powerful that it is attractive to a lot of people out there to try to steal it.

The immature artist imitates. Mature artists steal.

You're creating new things in movies and people are going to steal them.

I played with so many musicians and some of the musicians would have something I want. I steal a lot of them, and I mash it up, I mash it up into my chords.

Somebody told me long ago that in acting, it's okay to steal, just steal from the best.

All writers steal. You might as well steal from the best.

I'm a plagiarist - I always look back at other movies, and I steal, but I steal well, and I reinvent.