Quotes About Innovation

The desire to hit a big home run is dominating the music business.

At the beginning of the 20th century, the ambition of the great painters was to make paintings that were like music, which was then considered as the noblest art.

My music, my whole approach to the synthesizer has completely changed now.

I feel like certain people think that certain styles of music will taint their jazz style.

Joining Modest Mouse was just consistent with what I used to do as a teenager: I followed where I thought I would make some interesting music.

When I'm riding in a car, I don't really listen to music. I turn the radio off and just be thinking, brainstorming. I'm one of these people that just like to brainstorm.

I'm not trying to keep up or adapt. I'm allowing myself to grow, evolve and create new music.

Madonna is interesting. She changed music. She definitely did. She gave me an opportunity that no one else would give me, so I am very grateful to her.

I always wanted to be a spontaneous composer.

There were no guarantees that country music, whose roots were in the South, were ready for Charley Pride.

The one thing about the music business is that there is no rulebook. It's not like the NFL or something where there's four downs to get ten yards or baseball where it's three strikes and you're out.

Whenever there's a change with Jazz & its aesthetics, it's almost always reflected with a change in the culture.

Music that was made in the 60s and 70s did come from a really soulful place. The seed for the songs written in the 90s were planted in those songs, even though they were samples.

I was horrified by modern 12-tone music. I said to myself, 'Maybe I can find something different... maybe salvation, liberation, is possible.

Good music shouldn't have a shelf life.

I love reinventing my music and myself as well, and that's something my fans love about me.

Keeping your artistic self as creative as possible is a balancing act.

After all, in today's music scene every band seems to steal from other bands.

I used to like to set different film clips to classical music, not even my own songs, but make little movies.

Hip hop is the new rock n' roll, you know what I mean? And anybody who doesn't think that is just sort of living in the past. It's all just American music, really, when you get right down to it.

Anyone who has that weird volition to become an actor probably has a weird volition to do lots of other creative things - to write, to play music, to paint, to cook.

What do artists do? Artists give people something they didn't know they were missing: a dance, a piece of music, a painting, a piece of sculpture. Catering to that need is the best business strategy.

Punk was originally about creating new, important, energetic music that would hopefully threaten the status quo and the stupidity of the 1970s.

Music appeals to me for what can be done with it.