Quotes About Innovation

Composers are always going back to the past.

My favourite composers are Vishal Shekhar, AR Rahman, Shankar Ehsaan-Loy.

Time is the main subject for any musicians, music writers, composers.

I don't like to box myself in when I'm composing.

Isn't composing music akin to film direction?

As a writer, I always tend to take the liberty and the great artistic luxury of a composite form of writing.

I'd like to play for you one of my compositions, my only composition.

No one has the Houdini school of composition.

For one, the whole concept of 'Live From Here' - writing a song every week - was like composition bootcamp.

The challenge for a good musician is to bring out compositions that seem fresh to the listener, even if the listener has heard the song or the composition before.

I don't believe in making two songs similar. Every composition must have its own unique character.

I got to Brighton in the late 90s and discovered samplers. Suddenly, I could be my own band with a guitar and sampler, getting my drums in charity shop records. It was better than bashing around in someone's basement, trying to compromise ideas.

I think it's amazing when technology is used in a smart way, but the responsibility that comes with it... I think there's a lot of technology that we're using that we haven't thought through. It's a bit scary to put all your trust in technology and to think that that's what going to save us. We're going to have to make some compromises.

There's a lot of compromises, but that's what a great record should be, really.

My compulsion is to create things.

I only buy a computer when it's two years old, after the glitches have been worked out.

We don't want to turn the TV into a computer.

Ask not what the brain can do for the computer. Ask what the computer can do for the brain.

I spent most of my childhood welded to my Atari 2600, until I got my first computer, a TRS-80.

I never took a computer science course in college, because then it was a thing you just learned on your own.

Computer science education is important.

Computers in classrooms are the filmstrips of the 1990s.

Dad was very into electronics, robotics and computers, so I was interested in what he was doing.

But computers have changed the world for everyone, so there will be some way of working it out.