Quotes About Innovation

I will ignore all ideas for new works and engines of war, the invention of which has reached its limits and for whose improvement I see no further hope.

We are obliged to regard many of our original minds as crazy at least until we have become as clever as they are.

To work from nature is to improvise.

Innovation is a discipline not a lottery... It comes from the combination of two elements within my control: hard work and openmindedness.

But no work from a first rate mind is ever really second rate.

I'm not giving up on my work. I'm still trying to challenge people's aesthetics and myself.

I think a composer is always interested in his last work.

There's a need to keep the history of an artform going, parallel with the new work that's being done.

I refuse to write the same story twice. I keep experimenting. I keep learning how to work. I've been at it pretty much 50 years, and I'm now beginning to learn how to do the job well.

I thought I had a great opportunity when I started doing my comic book in 1972. I thought there was so much territory to work in.

There is no Sixth Commandment in art. The poet is entitled to lay his hands on whatever material he finds necessary for his work.

Talking about one's work releases the energy and tension to do and make.

Artists with a capital 'A' are at ease working in all areas of art, whether it is a contemporary abstract painting or work requiring methods and techniques of the Renaissance Masters.

I enjoy having some boundaries to work within. That's why I generally don't like alternate tunings and stuff like that. I like the boundaries of regular tunings.

The formula is simple - do more of what is working, do less of what isn't, and try on new behaviors to see if they produce better results.

Its a marathon, its not a sprint. Ten years. Fifteen years. You've got to get up everyday, with a new idea, a new spin, and you've got to bring it to work, every day

I would love to have access to a company like Caterpillar. I would make all their stuff remote controlled and work ten times as fast.

Innovating economies expand and develop. Economies that do not add new kinds of goods and services, but continue only to repeat old work, do not expand much nor do they, by definition, develop.

Muscle-work can only make one weary-it takes brain-work to create true exhaustion.

For me, naming bands was the forerunner to really writing lyrics, because I work off titles.

The responsibility of the artist consists in perfecting his work so that it may become attractively disinteresting.

I feel that my job is to create an atmosphere where creative people can do their best work.

I love breaking stereotypes.

My goal is to be myself, and to challenge stereotypes, and to follow the rules, and break them, and make new rules. It's not about doing something that's already been done. That would be silly.