Quotes About Innovation

The people who really got me off were dealing with the musical potential of their instrument.

Jazz isn't dead. It just smells funny.

Let us not forget that the greatest composers were also the greatest thieves. They stole from everyone and everywhere.

Although I am basically self taught, I consider Debussy my teacher - the most important elements are colour, light and shadow.

Why not invest in the future of music, instead of building fortresses to preserve its past?

I've seen and learned enough to keep my music fresh and spread out.

When you think of Napster, you think of music. But the first thing that struck me was that this was an important case not only for the music industry but for the whole Internet.

When I got started in New York, if you were different from Miles & Dizzy it was very difficult.

Even experimental composers, revolutionary composers, self-styled radicals are, in writing revolutionary music, recognizing the music that preceded them precisely by trying to avoid it.

Why is Schoenberg's Music so Hard to Understand?

You can't play anything on a horn that Louis Armstrong hasn't played

Never listen to music when you're trying go come up with a Big Idea.

Fight the tendency to become complacent and do one kind of music - that is the death of a musician.

Charlie Christians' contributions to the electric guitar are as big as Thomas Edisons' contributions to the world.

We forget that this music, music made by my brothers and sisters, is still a baby. It's just beginning. When I think of the possibilities, it makes me smile.

Movies are a complicated collision of literature, theatre, music and all the visual arts.

I felt a responsibility to present a viable alternative to the popular electric sound.

Our mothers and grandmothers ... moving to music not yet written.

I hate it when bands change between records. They're thinking before they make music.

I don't feel bound by the ebbs and flows of musical trends, or what's happening with new music in general.

Because I've been making music and releasing it for so long, I've got that production-line thing in my brain: I can't do anything new until the last one's out.

I didn't think anything we did was spectacular. I remember we thought, 'Let's just write some scary music.'

The beauty of jazz is that it's malleable. People are addressing it to suit their own personalities.

If this word "music" is sacred and reserved for eighteenth and nineteenth century instruments, we can substitute a more meaningful term: organization of sound.