Quotes About Innovation

Creativity is more than just being different. Anybody can plan weird; that's easy. What's hard is to be as simple as Bach. Making the simple, awesomely simple, that's creativity.

To hell with the rules. If it sounds right, then it is.

To jazz, or not to jazz, there is no question!

All the good music has already been written by people with wigs and stuff.

Golf is a game invented by the same people who think music comes out of a bagpipe.

Sometimes it is the artist's task to find out how much music you can still make with what you have left.

My mother always told me, even if a song has been done a thousand times, you can still bring something of your own to it. I'd like to think I did that.

Jazz has borrowed from other genres of music and also has lent itself to other genres of music.

If you hit a wrong note, then make it right by what you play afterward.

With the Stray Cats at least, we really took the music somewhere else. First, we wrote our own songs. That's a real weak point in modern classics if you do rockabilly or blues.

I look at radio as gone … Piracy is the new radio, that's how music gets around.

I think Paul McGuinness and U2 created the Irish music industry. It certainly wasn't there before that.

There aren't that many things left that haven't already been done, especially with music. I'm interested in ideas that can shake us all up.

Since I was a child, my whole life has revolved around music. It's often while listening to a song that ideas for my fashion collections formed.

When people say you're doing something radical in rock or dance music, I'm not sure how special that is. What we do is so old-fashioned. It's like trying to do something innovative in tap-dancing.

I never took sheet music seriously. I could do better myself just by listening to other people and using my own intuition.

Without Elvis none of us could have made it.

Music comes from the musician, not the instrument.

People sometimes forget that jazz was built not only in the minds of the great ones but on the backs of the ordinary ones — ordinary musicians.

Irving Berlin has no place in American music -- he is American music.

Ask anyone. If it hadn't been for Elvis, I don't know where popular music would be. He was the one that started it all off, and he was definitely the start of it for me.

The imminent demise of the large record companies as gatekeepers of the world's popular music is a good thing, for the most part.

Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that's creativity.

I am an improviser, ... I improvise music. Whatever you want to call it all, it is all improvised music. I may capture it and go back and write it down for others, but it was originally improvised.