Quotes About Innovative

Musical 'fusion' projects have earned themselves a bad name, but that's mainly because they often involve pop artists conscripting orchestras to play unimaginative backdrops to their acts. What's really exciting is when you spark off a dialogue between very different musical forces.

Being genre-bending doesn't really cross my mind. I don't consider anyone I work with a specific genre.

With 'Shameless,' 'Homeland' and 'American Horror Story,' these are all shows that don't follow a particular mold, and they are out-there. The acting is spectacular.

I've never made a film using dialogue or speech.

My work more than didn't fit in. It crossed willy-nilly the boundaries that people had spent their lives building up. It hits some 30 subfields of biology, even geology.

I think it's being innovative and very creative to stay away from flat-out sampling somebody else's record. To me, that doesn't show too much of your creative side unless you take a little piece and add it, almost like spice on a chicken.

I think Spielberg is a master. I think 'Jaws' invented a genre.

I want to be taken seriously as the type of musician that plays stuff like an electric rake. I mean, how seriously do you take someone like Spike Jones? They take him pretty seriously - a really good musician who made a great contribution in terms of humor, which is part of what I try to do too.

I live the life of the last Renaissance man.

By whatever means are available.

I would say my whole universe is probably categorized as guerilla marketing. For a long time, I had a line which was, 'Whenever I hear the word 'marketing,' it makes me throw up a little bit in my mouth.'

The way I play is not like most people. The moves are more computeresque. They're not the moves that most humans are going to play.

The thing I always loved about the movie business is it is really a cowboy industry in the sense that there's no prescribed road into it or through it.

Everyone in the music industry is so fun and laid-back.

There's nothing I can't do musically.

I'm quite an eclectic musician.

Being an American musician means being adventurous.

I'm basically a musician.

I mix mayonnaise, ketchup and brandy and a little bit of mustard. This is a heck of a good sauce for seafood.

I was the Marlon Brando of my generation.

I was a little bit ahead of my time.

The avant garde is so narcissistic.

Nashville is coming up to be an amazing foodie city.

In terms of 'American Horror Story' and 'Nashville,' what attracted me to those, and 'Friday Night Lights,' for that matter, is that they felt like something innovative and something that we hadn't seen before. As an actor, that's exciting.