Quotes About Experimentation

It's okay to be kind of looking for what you want and trying out all kinds of different ideas and different course work, etc.

Don't go to the same studio twice, or work with the same engineer twice.

I don't work at night. I'm not very good about working at night. I get tired during the day and I usually like to save my nights to try things out recording.

I never failed. It just didn't work 10,000 times.

I know of over 3,000 ways [that] a light bulb does not work.

I suppose it's amazing when you think how many things people get involved in that don't work.

If you set up an environment where failing is encouraged then you want to try everything. It's obviously the best way to work.

You'll have to leave my meals on a tray outside the door because I'll beworking pretty late on the secret of making myself invisible, which may take me almost until eleven o'clock.

To create different work, one needs new tools and materials

You'll know you're doing something right if you feel you don't know what you're doing... if you know what you are doing, you are doing it right- but you might just repeating yourself...

We stuck the record head so it kept on recording over and over on top of itself and played keyboard notes into it to create this ghost repetition melody.

The nice thing about student drama is that you're allowed to get things wrong, because it doesn't mean no one will ever hire you again.

I told the students that whatever they did in class was for the wastebasket.

In my own house, I rigged up a laboratory and studied chemistry in the evenings, determined that there should be nothing in the manufacture of steel that I would not know.

I've never studied the classics, but I'd like to. My teacher offered to show me how the Greeks were able to sculpt someone perfectly. From there, you can go off and experiment - sort of like jazz. Once you learn to play anything, you can break the form and go and do something even bigger.

I've always tried different stuff in the studio. I use rakes, spoons, cans... I'm a surround-sound type of guy.

I like home recordings and studio recordings just as much as each other - I don't think one is better - but for this record I wanted to see what I could do in a real studio with real producers.

For more than 10 years, Daniel Snaith has been playing mad scientist with pop and psychedelic music. As Manitoba, and more recently as Caribou, he's pushed the genres' limits with electronics and studio trickery.

Getting used to the studio and everything was fun, we freaked about alot. I was working very hard then.

I like to explore a lot of textural, arrangement aspects in the studio.

I have a rough idea when I walk into a studio though.

The thing that's characteristic of my performance is that I literally do drag the whole studio onto the stage.

Like many students, I found the drudgery of real experiments and the slowness of progress a complete shock, and at my low points I contemplated other alternative careers including study of the philosophy or sociology of science.

Physics is about questioning, studying, probing nature. You probe, and, if you're lucky, you get strange clues.