Quotes About Experimentation

I made the first Moebius strip without knowing what it was.

I think that the things that are interesting sometimes, when you're striving for a sound, you just get it wrong 'cause of your own limitations. That's when you get something kind of original.

Well, I am not interested in the kind of expression that you have when you paint a painting with brush strokes. It's all right, but it's already done and I want to do something new.

It struck me that it would be fun to just play stuff with Hauschka. Not even have a project in mind, but just get together and make up some music and see what came out.

When I began playing around at being a physical chemist, I enjoyed very much doing work on the structure of DNA molecules, something which I would never have dreamed of doing before I started.

It's much easier to fail when you're in the pilot, early stage, when it's less expensive and you're exploring than when you're way out the door and you've spent all this money. Industry is smart: structured to have skunkworks and pilot phases.

The '90s were extremely diverse, almost like a laboratory of the new century. There was much experimenting around, in politics, economics, gender and family structures, and also in fashion. There was a cloud of possibilities which kept us all dizzy.

I love creating models and coming up with explicit structures I can play with.

Sometimes it takes us a long time to build up songs, and we really work the structures over and over and build in lots of noisy parts.

What really helps me is being able to record my albums at home - I have more fun experimenting that way, as opposed to working with an engineer, in which case I have to deal with the humiliation of doing take after take, and that can get frustrating.

We should not be a party that is opposed to science.

When I was younger I did some pretty wild things with the limited options I had.

My first memories of make-up aren't great! I remember having a bright orange face and a white neck, I didn't know how to use make-up.

We're more about other things over odd timings: orchestration, composition, horn/vocal arrangements - that's where we get super weird.

If you really see how many live shows are going on... you can start to do things that are out of the ordinary.

If someone wants to make very, very original music that no one has ever heard before, you shouldn't know anything about music. It just narrows you down, you know?

Most of the great businesses of our time have experimented. Like Google.

Everyone knows we take our time. We're really trying to be responsible with ourselves in trying to discover ideas that haven't been discovered before. It's kind of an alchemy, how we experiment.

Everything that we start is something that we don't know what the outcome is going to be.

I have, like, 'Finders Keepers' fever now! Sometimes I go in the studio, and I'm like, 'That worked so well, and I wrote it in 45 minutes, so if I try wearing the same outfit and playing on the same piano, it'll happen again.'

I can't sit still for long and need creative outlets and think you should try different things. I mean, if you're a musician all of your life, you gotta try different things. I really believe you can have it all.

We try some really interesting things besides being outright commercial.

I work like a baker. I mix things, put them in the oven and see if I like what comes out.

The opposite approach would be to encourage people to make some errors. You do this by asking your folks on occasion what dead-end roads they've been down