Quotes About Innovation

We need to think out of the box rather than just going round and round, beating ourselves up about numbers.

As for the way we play, we are as much like the Beatles as any American Jazz group is like any other.

I really like The Beatles.

From 1958 to 1964, that's real rock n' roll. Then the Beatles hit and everyone sounded like them.

I'll be honest. We copied everyone... the Beatles, the Bachelors. It was the only way people would even listen to you.

The Beatles did everything first, and they did it the best.

With '5 Boroughs,' we were each working on beats, sitting in front of our laptops and samplers.

I'm most proud that I thought of Beats at 55.

It's not what Apple and Beats are doing today. It's what we believe pairing the two together can produce for the future.

To create and do something no one else has done before - that feeling beats anything else I've felt.

I'm the type of guy, I make a lot of different beats, but sometimes I might stick to a sound for a little while.

In high school, for two years, I made all my beats on earbuds. I'd just guess, so the frequencies would be all off.

My job is to make beats and make something hot.

I used to re-create the beats that I heard.

With me and Timbaland, we would always be at the studio, but working separately. He would be doing his thing with the beats and I would be doing my thing writing and then we would both come together and say 'OK, you add this to it and I'll add that to it.'

Science is not everything, but science is very beautiful.

I remember the N64 coming out. That was a beautiful day.

I think entrepreneurship is a beautiful thing.

I don't like totally free jazz, unless it's done by somebody like Coltrane, who did bebop and cool jazz, so he was allowed to go out there.

I was doing the Klaus Schulze noise-kid thing before it became interesting to people.

Japan even has beds that hold me.

If you look at somebody like Sam Bee, she got to create her own thing without any expectations that there was a show there. That was probably liberating for them.

I don't get so much inspiration from other musicians. Especially alive musicians. Late musicians are good - Bach, Beethoven - yes, good.

When I was in high school, I used to beg my teachers to let me create films and plays instead of writing essays. I think they were at least happy I was excited about school.