Quotes About Innovation

When Punk Rock happened, it created an opening in the culture... it made it ok to think you could play music, even though you had no musical training.

Hip Hop was supposed to be this new thing that had no boundaries and was so different to everyday music. As long as it has soul to it, hip hop can live on.

We all have to open our minds, stretch forth, take chances and venture out musically to try and arrive at something new and different.

A great musician is just a thief who doesn't get caught

I think music has gone through a period of something very severe, rather radical, rather the way painting did with cubism.

If you want to know about the Sixties, play the music of The Beatles.

If Apple's a technology company in the music industry, why can't somebody in the music industry make technology?

Creativity and artistic endeavors have a mission that goes far beyond just making music for the sake of music.

Man, there's no boundary line to art!

Never play anything the same way twice.

That.s what Jazz music is all about.We started the Messengers because somebody had to mind the store for jazz.No America--no Jazz. It is the only culture that America has brought forth.

The piano ain't got no wrong notes.

Modern music is three farts and a raspberry, orchestrated.

I am like a chameleon, influenced by whatever's going on. If Elvis can do it, I can do it. If the Everly Brothers can do it, me and Paul can. Same with Dylan.

I love composing and writing music and dancing and performing and conceptualizing creatively for visual mediums. I love to create.

I look at music now as just something to keep you relevant.

What I'm doing, I prefer to call that jazz, because it is a beautiful word - I love it.

In improvisation, there are no mistakes.

I'm 100 percent original, and that's what got me here. My rap music is more understandable, slower. It tells a story. You can write a book on each of my thoughts.

I did my own music videos, my own TV commercials.

As far as I'm concerned, blues and jazz are the great American contributions to music.

I've always had a fascination with making your own music but never have been skilled enough to play the instrument, so to be able to make music without the ability was awesome.

I learned from my uncle that jazz, like symphony music, was built to last.

Maybe if I knew music, I couldn't do what I am doing.