Quotes About Innovation

I believe that there are many interesting projects that are potentially possible for me other than game music, and therefore in my mind there are several things that are being contemplated.

It would be really nice to be able to put out releases that wouldn't be conditional upon an album format, and just put out music in different ways.

Sometimes you get really bitter about how the prettiest images don't typically end up attached to the most interesting music. But I just take that as a challenge to try to do something cool.

... you watch Jimi Hendrix literally reinvent the instrument. He was playing from somewhere else. He was really a kind of hybrid, and I can't even begin to imagine where he came from

The greatest DJ is one who can live within the formula and make it sound .... as if he producing and pulling the music all by himself.

There hasn't been anything real since grunge. That was the last movement led by music or an art form.

A lot of people from my generation of music are so focused on playing things correctly or to perfection that they're stuck in that safe place.

I'm not a great inventor from scratch. What I do is to use, steal, acquire, reproduce or re-cycle music from other musicians.

In sound design programs now, you can literally sculpt the sound on visual graphs. Sometimes the visual programs are even more interesting than the music that's making them

I get a wave of pride in America when I look back at what we've accomplished in the field of music.

I like African and avant-garde music, anything that's vaguely interesting. Hard rock I get a bit bored with because it's what I do. So anything outside of hard rock's fine by me.

Everything we release with Tool is inspired by our music.

A big part of the Motown formula was, they took music and turned it into this sort of automotive assembly line. They were cranking out 10 songs a day in that studio, or more.

There isn't anything weird about my music.

The muse of music isn't just from Greek mythology, but living in people like the Beatles, Chuck Berry, Anita Baker, Aretha Franklin.

Since music has never had a Rembrandt, we have remained nothing more than musicians.

Jazz is the music of unemployment.

I think the special stuff [music] still finds a way to be heard, as long as you pair it with a good release strategy.

What I do isn't black music, it's just my music.

I combine aspects of many styles of music and create my own musical forms by way of electronic instruments.

I really enjoy making different types of music than I do with the Backstreet Boys.

From now on all of my guitar solos will be in morse code.

I strapped an MP3 player to one of those floor-cleaning robots. Call him DJ Roomba - little guy cruises around and plays music. What's hot, DJ Roomba!

When I look at commercial studios, I think, "Oh, they're all so nice and tidy," but it's because they don't actually write music in them.