Quotes About Experimentation

It isn't enough to think outside the box. Thinking is passive. Get used to acting outside the box.

Use your freedom to experiment with visual ideas.

Try out your ideas by visualizing them in action.

Good ideas come from bad ideas, but only if there are enough of them.

It's to be expected that you make mistakes when you're breaking new ground.

I firmly believe that you can't get a good movie without risking a bad movie.

I didn't start smoking weed till my junior year. I had a boyfriend who smoked a lot, and I was like, "Oh, I guess I'm moving on to this phase of life." I didn't fight it at all.

There aren't that many things left that haven't already been done, especially with music. I'm interested in ideas that can shake us all up.

Modern music is as dangerous as narcotics.

Any good music must be an innovation.

If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all.

The way you change and help music is by tryin' to invent new ways to play

We need to restore the spirit of irreverence in music.

Music in general is looking for something new overall.

We all have to open our minds, stretch forth, take chances and venture out musically to try and arrive at something new and different.

All the big artists I talk to say that they are trapped in a formula and they are looking for the music of tomorrow.

We have always been thinking about different ways to perform electronic music, i.e. music made with machines.

Risk is at the heart of jazz. Every note we play is a risk.

Something new has been added, a new art of sound. Am I wrong in calling it music?

There's no field of music which doesn't have good ideas.

Trying to play the new concept with a outward bound feeling.

In terms of creating new music, I'm willing to even branch out and take a slight gamble, but I'm not going all the way far left. I'm not trying to reinvent the wheel.

I was horrified by modern 12-tone music. I said to myself, 'Maybe I can find something different... maybe salvation, liberation, is possible.

The mind & body must be subjected to extreme stimulus, by means of drugs & music.