Quotes About Innovation

Me and Kendrick [Lamar] have different types of music. He from a different coast; we ain't in the same lane.

No one is original. Everyone is derivative.

I'm totally not a nostalgic person. I always look to the future and as much as I've enjoyed the ride until now and the different phases, I'm more excited about the next music.

Creativity is not simply a property of exceptional people but an exceptional property of all people.

We need to restore the spirit of irreverence in music.

I don't write music for sissy ears.

Other bands wanted to wreck hotel rooms; Roxy Music wanted to redecorate them.

The way to write American music is simple. All you have to do is be an American and then write any kind of music you wish.

New music? Hell, there's been no new music since Stravinsky.

I know that the twelve notes in each octave and the variety of rhythm offer me opportunities that all of human genius will never exhaust.

Jazz is an idea that is more powerful than the details of its history.

When music appears which only King Crimson can play, then, sooner or later, King Crimson appears to play the music.

Nothing will stop you being creative more effectively as the fear of making a mistake.

I have to give credit to Giorgio Moroder ; among the first to make us realize the importance of music in film.

Analog, electronic, whatever it happens to be, I simply love and adore literally every aspect of making music.

I'm not old school, like, "Aw, man, I gotta do my music like I did in '98." I just go with the flow. I don't try to change anything.

Rock music is electronic music, dependent entirely on electronic circuitry and amplification.

I've always told the musicians in my band to play what they know and then play above that. Because then anything can happen, and that's where great art and music happens.

All of a sudden it hit me - if there was such a thing as composing music, there could be such a thing as composing motion. After all, there are melodic figures, why can't there be figures of motion?

The idea is more important than the style you're playing in.

The narrow gauge mindset of the past is insufficient for today's wicked problems. We can no longer play the music as written. Instead, we have to invent a whole new scale.

Music in general is looking for something new overall.

The wireless music box has no imaginable commercial value. Who would pay for a message sent to nobody in particular?

If you really understand the meaning of be-bop, you understand the meaning of freedom.