Quotes About Innovation

Great music completely obliterates any conceptions of genre.

I participated in the transformation of my era. I did it with clothes, which is surely less important than music, architecture, painting but whatever it's worth I did it.

Once I could play what I heard inside me, that's when I was born.

Music changes, and I'm gonna change right along with it.

I think it's important to say something. If you're making music it's kinda' like, oh, cool, so is everyone else.

From the very beginning of his education, the child should experience the joy of discovery.

How lucky is the man who, like Mozart and others, goes to the tavern of an evening and writes some fresh music. For he lives while he is creating.

We decided to start our own group because we were bored with everything we heard... Everything was 10th-generation Led Zeppelin... Overproduced, or just junk. We missed music like it used to be.

I'm a young dude, and there ain't too many people who are doin' it like I'm doin' it. There ain't no others in my lane - I am the future of this music.

Jimi Hendrix was the most exciting guitarist I've ever heard.

I tried to take heavy metal... and balled it up and chopped it in half and really tried to create a new form of energy. I really tried to re-shape extreme music as I see it through my eyes.

Don't play what's there, play what's not there.

I never thought Jazz was meant to be a museum piece like other dead things once considered artistic.

It is evidently known, beyond contradiction, that New Orleans is the cradle of Jazz and I, myself, happened to be the creator in the year 1902.

Jazz, I mean, music will always move, because it can't become stagnant. Because if it becomes stagnant, it's like a river, it'll kill us all. It has to keep moving, music will always flow.

One thing I like about jazz, kid, is that I don't know what's going to happen next. Do you?

Music mirrors where we should go, have gone and can go. Music is an abstraction.

Nothing primes inspiration more than necessity.

Great musicians accept everything that they hear and find something good. They take what they like and they throw away what they don't like

I'm just trying to make the best music I can possibly make and represent the new class or whatever. Myself and Cudi and Asher and B.o.B. That's all I can do at this point.

To hell with the rules. I'm going for the unknown.

I always try to go where the excitement is, where the best music is. I dont care what kind of music it is. I go with the best artist we can find.

I don't care who likes it or buys it. Because if you use that criterion, Mozart would never have written Don Giovanni, Charlie Parker would have never played anything but swing music.

The way you change and help music is by tryin' to invent new ways to play