Quotes About Experimentation

I mixed hypnosis and magic together to try and create a new area. I'm not trying to reinvent the wheel.

I had a spell no more striking than other people of my job description. I did all the things you weren't supposed to do. I had a motto: When in doubt, try it. I went out and committed experience.

Whenever we try something new, mistakes will happen. Seemingly good ideas will fail and need to be re-thought.

Whenever I sing on a different scale, I sound very different. However, I have learned that I can experiment with my tone.

There will be some tracks on the next album which that will consist of mostly noise and feedback, whereas others may just have guitar parts and samples.

Whereas Schaeffer and Henry were working like samplers, their idea was to capture those sounds which couldn't be serially calibrated because they were too complex in character.

When you write on the road, you are restricted to the instruments around you, whereas in the studio, you can plug anything in and try it.

I like taking risks. I like trying new things, whether it be style or restaurants or whatever.

Whether you're shuffling a deck of cards or holding your breath, magic is pretty simple: It comes down to training, practice, and experimentation, followed up by ridiculous pursuit and relentless perseverance.

Since, however, it is immaterial whether the work is done by assistants or a machine, I decided to build a machine equivalent to an array of about 200 separating funnels.

I think it's really important whilst you're a young actor to try as many new things as possible... to try and do something you haven't necessarily been seen doing before.

As the label has developed over the years, more and more structure and tailored pieces have been added, and so, whilst the core values of the brand have remained, I feel it's important to try new things and add more layers and dimensions to a collection every season.

Be it whim or emergency, the modern laboratory is equally at the service of romance, equally ready to gratify mankind with a torpedo or a toy.

In any art movement, the art has to move into a new phase - a filmmaker has a desire to make a film that is not like a previous film.

There's just a certain fear that people have when they put meat coming out of a printer in their mouth.

I've always taken apart calculators and anything I can get my hands on when I was younger. When I was around 12 - like, 6th grade - my parents always had around Mac computers because my mom is a teacher. So I'd always be playing around with all the crazy applications and making banners and printing things out and always into graphic design.

A neighborhood friend showed me how it was possible to go to a camera shop and pick up chemicals for pennies... literally... and develop your own film and make prints.

This may be done by grafting, by confining the roots, withholding water, bending the branches, or in a hundred other ways which all proceed upon the same principle.

Science is not a collection of facts; it is a process of discovery.

Design is an iterative process. One idea often builds on another.

My learning process has always been very idea-oriented. I never sat down with a book being like, 'OK, now I'm going to learn about transistors.' Instead I had an idea that I really liked and learned as I was trying to figure out how to build it.

People are really set in their ways in how they produce records, and I was at least open enough to where I knew I wanted to do something totally different.

Almost all new ideas have a certain aspect of foolishness when they are first produced.

If you're working with a producer like Rick Rubin or whatever, you sing each line probably 30 different ways. Each time, they're like, 'Can you try it this way? Can you try it that way?' That's each line in the song, for each song.