Quotes About Experimentation

Innovation requires an experimental mindset.

I never intended to become a commercial filmmaker in the first place. What I do requires time and experimentation. Commercial work is often not the best way to get the most innovative work, because it's about money and marketing. Although advertising is now embracing non-commercial people.

You definitely want to do the little films. They're always going to be harder, but you don't do them to make money. You do them so you can see what you can make with the research that you have.

That's a fantasy of mine. We could do every record in a residency. It would be so cool. We could play the B-sides along with the album and get really creative with it.

I got so I was really just sick of sculpture.

Boredom or being sick of what you've done before is a big part of being in a band.

I had a faux-hawk for a while and I used to buzz the sides and design it. It was really bad.

I don't know what I did to my main bass. I've poured makeup into it, I've bashed it around - and we've gone in the back and cleaned it up... It sounds amazing and one of a kind at this point, but it picks up a really decent radio signal if you're anywhere near an antenna.

We'll have all sorts of crazy signals. And you'd be a damned fool if you didn't look for things you weren't expecting, because that's probably what you're going to see first.

I wanted to be free to try any silly thing I decided to do.

There are a lot of silly projects out there.

Failure is easy to handle because once you fail, the options are very simple... like, 'Try something different,' or, 'Maybe if you do the same thing, do it in a different way.'

In the '70s, my playing was completely untutored, but it sounded good to me, and I tried to find ways to make those very simple things work in more ambitious contexts.

Remember: There's no such thing as a mistake in the kitchen, just a new recipe waiting to be discovered!)

Perhaps the way one tells how alive a particular art form is, is by the latitude it gives for making mistakes in it

Perhaps the way one tells how alive a particular art form is, is by the latitude it gives for making mistakes in it and still being good.

think about kissing boys all the time. Me and all my friends. We even practice making out with our pillows.

Abandoning the search for the Knowledge would free us to pursue a new sort of science. We could follow any path that the data suggested to us.

Musicians, actors, athletes, philosophers, scientists, writers understand that brilliant creations are often born of small errors.

Try a thing you haven't done three times. Once to get over the fear of doing it. Twice to learn how to do it. And a third time to figure out whether you like it or not.

These last few months Vida had started believing in all kinds of strange things she'd have laughed at when we lived back in Avalon. She'd tried every spell she could find in the dusty old books she brought home from thrift shops and garage sales; none of them ever worked, and it was awful watching her try.

If you're afraid of butter, use cream.

If you're afraid of butter, use cream.

It has taken a long time for me to really dress as the artist that I am: I'm an indie girl, I like experimental, I like things to be subverted. Details are the fun part.