Quotes About Experimentation

When you're initially making music, you're kind of just shooting at the air.

I used to put black ink on the author's name in a book and write my name instead to check how it would look there - such was my passion!

There is no science in creativity. If you don't give yourself room to fail, you won't innovate.

Innovation happens because there are people out there doing and trying a lot of different things.

The major challenge facing most foundations is that they are risk averse. This inhibits their ability to experiment and commit to the experimentation and innovation process.

It is the essence of innovation to fail most of the time.

I think the '70s was a much healthier period for music because people were more innovative and creative.

I think if you're going to be a little bit innovative or risk-taking, sometimes you're going to be wrong, and it's going to look bad. I understand that.

I love finding out-of-the-box inspirations and blending them with what I've done in the past. And when I started to experiment with genres, it didn't sound forced. Maybe that's because it's all music that I listened to growing up, and it's all music that I love.

Kids are really inspired to not just apply senses to robots and machines, but to try them on themselves.

I enjoy changing; I think it's more fun to try something different than to just do what you did last time. As an artist, you just want to keep creating, keep finding a place that really inspires you that feels fresh and new, and keep it exciting.

The inspiring thing is that people are often more experimental with their desserts than other courses. It allows me to be more creative and excite people.

There's not a formula that I'm following; it's just how I feel at the time. For instance, I did a very experimental film called 'Hardcore Henry,' and that was simply because I thought the filmmaker was very interesting and a risk taker. A film like that had never been made before, so I chose to do that at the time.

WWE definitely gives you the forum, the stage to do different things and see what works. That's the cool thing about being in front of a live audience every single week in WWE. You get instant feedback.

When you start running out of things to do on a guitar, you have to find other ways of making music with your instrument.

With every album that I do, I try to feature a new instrument or sound.

I had this instrument that I built in high school. It was a huge, six-foot-long stringed instrument, and I started playing with that amplified and singing through power electronic stuff. I played those shows, and it would blow the lid off of everybody, and everybody would flip out.

For 'Lonerism,' I really wanted make a non-psychedelic record. That's why the dominant instrument is the synthesiser, but maybe it didn't quite turn out that way.

With something like 'Second Sun' it was something I'd never really done before. It has no drums and I think that was the first time I'd done this sort of instrumental, bass-less kind of piece.

I love playing instruments that I don't know how to play or am not familiar with. I like the idea of danger and innocence that comes from it. As an artist, I feel I should be able to do something with anything I get my hands on. The music becomes minimalist because of my limited knowledge.

The beautiful thing about working with new instruments is that you sort of approach it with a fresh perspective.

The reason I can play loads of instruments is because I kept giving up and trying another one.

There are a whole bunch of instruments I'd like to build.

When I was at the Group for Musical Research, with this idea of discovering electronic music, I quickly realized that that it was a very interesting and exciting approach to music, but I also saw that it was very intellectual and quite dogmatic.