Quotes About Innovation

We deliberately used elements from Brazilian music and from African and Asian music. Now people can hear that but then it sounded so abstract, they couldn't hear it.

I think people are just creative, and this can be expressed in a number of ways. Bob Dylan and David Bowie create both music and art.

Remember the Bob Dylan rule: it's not just a record, it's a movement.

Jazz is not something that can be defined through blunt instruments. It is much more poetic than that.

Musical innovation is full of danger to the State, for when modes of music change, the laws of the State always change with them.

Frank [Zappa]'s music was never for the mass audience. His music contains specific kinds of information that you won't find elsewhere in rock and roll.

Ever since Two Daughters I've been composing my own music.

Everyone wants to talk about it, and right now music, flat-panel televisions, a whole host of new handheld devices are fun to talk about and very exciting to look at.

I don't care about the rules, if I don't break the rules at least 10x every song then I'm not doing my job.

When I see architecture that moves me, I hear music in my inner ear

I try to put myself into unusual and difficult situations as often as I can in order to capture the element of struggle in the music.

I've always had a lot of creative impact on the music with Timbaland.

I make music to generate atmospheres, not to complement already existing ones.

The musician who always plays on the same string is laughed at.

It's hard for me to think of others because I'm not particularly in sympathy with the music of this century.

Maybe one day there will finally be an education for electronic music.

In terms of creating new music, I'm willing to even branch out and take a slight gamble, but I'm not going all the way far left. I'm not trying to reinvent the wheel.

I love to mix things up and create new dishes in the kitchen. I love cooking shrimp scampi and having a glass of Pinot Grigio while listening to music.

The drive to create music that is pure is my highest priority. Sometimes I'll get extremely technical, and other times I'll just kind of go with the gods of music.

Rap is always evolving. It's easy for the old school to hate the new school, but it's a music that got a little stifled I think, by the Internet a little bit.

I like the idea of imagining a sound and feeling a sound and then having it come out through your body, through an instrument. That's an important way to make music.

It's the opportunity to play something completely different, responding to what happened just before you started to play, and I love that.

As rich as Cincinnati was in live music, New York was even more.

Taeyang's [music] is like hamburgers. He'll produces various flavors while staying within the boundaries of them being hamburgers such as a chicken burger and shrimp burger.