Quotes About Innovation

If I could be a stylist, I would style somebody.

Fashion is about trying out new things and having fun, and me and my stylist, Zadrian Smith, are going to keep doing just that.

When I went out and started making solo records, I was determined not to, I guess, put my name on an album that sounded like Styx. I wanted to carve my own niche, so quite frankly I went in a different direction.

A lot of problems get solved in those sort of in-between moments when your subconscious has been working on some problem. If you keep it spinning, you can fix ideas sometimes better than if you focus on them directly.

When I wake up, if I can't figure something out during the daytime and then wake up at 4 A.M., it's there immediately. I don't know if it's the subconscious mind working, but it just happens.

Artists are creating their own genre sound, and other artists are building upon that sound and already creating a huge subculture created around one particular sound created by one artist. So, with all that happening, the genres are going to break down, and there's going to be a multitude of sound coming out.

I would only create clothes myself if I felt I could do something really different - create a new style subculture for my generation - and that is very ambitious.

We work because it's a chain reaction, each subject leads to the next.

Haute couture is a legitimate subject for Yves Saint Laurent and could resume one day.

What you need to have is that link between your education and what you do. Make creativity part of the subject.

It frequently happens that two persons, reasoning right on a mechanical subject, think alike and invent the same thing without any communication with each other.

I don't really think about what the subject of my next album will be. I just know that I'm going to make another album.

The fact is that even art is subject to fashion.

The possibilities in sci-fi are wonderful. The subject is bigger than everything we know.

Entrepreneurs must be practical experts. They needn't set out to be subject matter experts in what they do; they must set out to solve a problem or pursue some cause or purpose greater than themselves.

New industries are created by entrepreneurs who don't necessarily have subject matter expertise when they get started, yet they are still responsible for most of the innovation we see in society.

My operas usually come from musical ideas rather than ideas about subject matter.

Rogers and Hammerstein were such a genius pair. They were able to touch on subject matter so far ahead of its time.

Redeeming subjects from cliche is its own pleasure and privilege.

I think a lot of kids are interested in two science subjects: dinosaurs and aliens. The reason is almost genetic; we're hard-wired to be interested in things that might be a little dangerous.

If you look at my career... I couldn't possibly have chosen those subjects if I was thinking, 'That's a great commercial idea.' I'm not aware of a great musical where someone has done that.

My job in many ways has been to navigate interesting routes around subjects people think are dull.

I really love picking up subjects where people say, 'How is this going to work?' and trying to find a way to make it work because every story needs to be told.

I have always chosen subjects which are little different, and not subjects that you see. That challenges me and the actors who work in the project.