Quotes About Experimentation

I always like to do something different, something unusual, stray off the path a bit.

If you're unwilling to try new things and to fail and learn, you don't have a shot. That doesn't mean you are going to be successful, but you have to try to change.

Unlike a celebrity, there's nothing I won't try and nothing I won't talk about when it comes to my hair. If I were to get a tattoo on my inner upper arm, it would read, 'Change thy hair, change thyself.'

I really chose a path after 'Grown Ups' of doing different things that I hadn't tried before, and just trying to take on those challenges.

We aren't upset when Paramount makes a $200 million movie that flops, but if a charity experiments with a $5 million fundraising event that fails, we call in the attorneys. So charities are petrified of trying bold new revenue-generating endeavors and can't develop the powerful learning curves the for-profit sector can.

The idea is this: It's important to upset one's work habits, to topple the cart for each project.

I worked with different producers from all genres, trying to bridge different styles of music, from urban to electronica to ballads.

Move fast, take risks, it's okay to try big things you're better off trying something and having it not work and learning from that than having not done anything at all.

I never view mistakes as failures. They are simply opportunities to find out what doesn't work.

The good thing about working alone is I get a lot done and I can experiment more. The bad thing is I miss out on the gregarious, social way that most musicians work.

Remember the two benefits of failure. First, if you do fail, you learn what doesn't work; and second, the failure gives you the opportunity to try a new approach.

A mistake is simply another way of doing things

At the beginning of all experimental work stands the choice of the appropriate technique of investigation

What has worked before is never as good as something that has never been tried before, even if it doesn't work.

Go ahead and act as if your decisions are temporary. Because they are. Be bold, make mistakes, learn a lesson, and fix what doesn't work. No sweat, no need to hyperventilate.

Do something. If it doesn't work, do something else. No idea is too crazy.

You've got to stop doing all the things that people have tried, tested, and found out don't work...

No, I haven't failed thousands of times. On the contrary, I have successfully eliminated thousands of ideas that do not work!

You never know exactly how new policies are going to work. That doesn't mean you shouldn't try them.

I can never stand still. I must explore and experiment. I am never satisfied with my work. I resent the limitations of my own imagination.

When I have eliminated the ways that will not work, I will find the way that will work.

A work of art must make the rules: rules do not make a work of art...I tell people I am not a musician; I work with rhythms, frequencies and intensities...tunes are merely the gossips of music.

I had to teach myself to let go of the conventional rock way of playing guitar and singing. Some things you wouldn't expect to work, did and some things won't ever work.

It's fun to be creative and innovative and come up with something crazy. So I need people to work with who are not going to be afraid to take it to the left a bit.