Quotes About Innovation

Yeah, anybody can go in with two turntables and a microphone or a home studio sampler and a little cassette deck or whatever and make records in their bedrooms.

I've noticed a lot of younger artists have less fear of doing different sorts of things, whether it's various types of music, or gallery artists moving between video and sculpture and drawing.

I'm not suggesting people abandon musical instruments and start playing their cars and apartments, but I do think the reign of music as a commodity made only by professionals might be winding down.

There's more good music being made now than ever before.

The making of music is profoundly affected by the market.

Music eats its young and gives birth to a new hybrid creature.

Presuming that there is such a thing as "progress" when it comes to music, and that music is "better" now than it used to be, is typical of the high self-regard of those who live in the present. It is a myth. Creativity doesn't "improve.

I would hope very much that the converse of that myth isn't true - that one does not have to be nuts to be creative.

Yale, pointed out that once you let yourself see things this way, lots of things become "musical scores"—although they might never have been intended to be played.

With the advent of recorded music in 1878, the nature of the places in which music was heard changed.

with jazz and folk musicians, everything was expected to be thrown into the crucible of a gig to see if it sank, floated, or maybe even flew.

The technology is useful and convenient, but it has, in the end, reduced its own value and increased the value of the things it has never been able to capture or reproduce.

There's a good chance that you might be inspired by ideas that originate outside of yourself.

the space, the platform, and the software "makes" the art, the music, or whatever.

Creativity doesn't "improve.

that there is such a thing as "progress" when it comes to music, and that music is "better" now than it used to be, is typical of the high self-regard of those who live in the present. It is a myth. Creativity doesn't "improve.

To some extent I happily don't know what I'm doing. I feel that it's an artist's responsibility to trust that.

As music becomes less of a thing--a cylinder, a cassette, a disc--and more ephemeral, perhaps we will begin to assign an increasing value to live performances again.

Stop making sense

There's an alternative. There's always a third way, and it's not a combination of the other two ways. It's a different way.

Graphic design will save the world right after rock and roll does.

The explosive properties of gunpowder were first used in war by the Jin, the northern rivals of the Song, in 1221.

People must therefore get away from the idea that serious work is restricted to beating to death a well-defined problem in a narrow discipline, while broadly integrative thinking is relegated to cocktail parties. In academic life, in bureaucracies, and elsewhere, the task of integration is insufficiently respected.

Innovation ensured that each cycle normally reached a higher level than its predecessor, but innovation was normally too slow to prevent an eventual collapse within each cycle, as populations outstripped available resources.