Quotes About Innovation

I took two years out to find what sound I felt passionate about and what I liked making. After the last album, 'Peroxide', which is quite poppy and acoustic, I felt really bored.

A new idea is like carbonated liquid in a bottle. You just sort of shake it until the cork pops, then you write and write.

I always have a big idea. It pops up every two to three years.

I like to create whatever that pops up in my head, bring whatever idea to life.

Nothing I do is done by popular demand.

In the Rodgers and Hammerstein generation, popular hits came out of shows and movies.

I've had people call me from bands that are very popular, and they're like, 'What do we do? We want to do what you do.' It's almost impossible to do what I do, because you would have to start in 1980. You can't just do it.

Since Mashable's inception, some of our most popular articles have focused on the science behind the world's coolest innovations.

Having a set, popular formula does inhibit you.

We had an erector set, and I was an avid fan of Popular Mechanics and Popular Science magazines.

I don't use the twang bar anymore. It's become too popular.

All I've ever wanted to do is move the needle on popular culture.

I love the idea of the amateur - that's what popular culture is all about. But what the Internet's doing is professionalizing everyone's amateuristic impulses.

Having a hit is nice, having some success, but when you move popular culture, that's a high.

Without David Bowie, popular music as we know it pretty much wouldn't exist.

I don't see that there are any particular changes in popular music.

For instance, I'm always fascinated to see whether, given the kind of fairly known and established form called popular music, whether there is some magic combination that nobody has hit upon before.

Jazz was the pop music of its day, and all American popular music has stemmed from it one way or another.

My thing is, once you start to put a backbeat on your music or something that has a machine in it, you have popularity, but you lose the flexibility. And you lose a richness.

Of course, no single entertainment device can enjoy eternal popularity.

The popularity of eSports was inevitable.

Art has never been a popularity contest.

I am keen to serve one-sixth of the world's population where the miracles of science and technology would multiply manifold for betterment of mankind.

People used to think that more population was bad for growth. In this view, people are stomachs - they eat, leaving less for everyone else. But once we realize the importance of ideas in the economy, people become brain - they innovate, creating more for everyone else.