Quotes About Discovery

You should listen to a lot of different music.

And if a few other people come along who discover my music because they in some natural way come across my music, cool.

I was looking for the people who were making the music inside the cabinet. I would look in there and see if I could find somebody who was making all this wonderful music.

So that's the challenge for me and that has always been the challenge - finding that melody, that riff, that thing that just lights me up and makes me feel like it's Christmas.

I'm a fan of music from all over the world.

It was kind of sort of the heavens opened up and I realized that Bach, at least, you know - out of all the classical music - needs to be a big part of my life.

I didn't know much about him, and I wasn't a big country music fan. I listened to the Beatles and David Bowie, so I didn't know a lot about him.

You don't really know what you're going to get until you're actually in Abbey Road. That's where I did all the music, in The Beatles' place.

I like African and avant-garde music, anything that's vaguely interesting. Hard rock I get a bit bored with because it's what I do. So anything outside of hard rock's fine by me.

Every day when I sit down to play, I learn something new.

The great thing about music is that whatever you're into, you see new possibilities.

I'm always asking friends what new music they're into, and I love showing people new talented artists.

I started getting into Internet technologies and computers. I wasn't especially interested in being a musician, but I wound up finding my way back to being interested in music through computers.

I'd much rather go out and have music randomly presented to me by different DJs than stay home and discover it on my own.

I'm very bad with music. I don't know any new music. I've listened to the same 10 or 12 albums my whole life.

Classical music only really came into my life in 1969. I wish I had heard classical music and church music when I was a teenager or even as a child.

I didn't start playing music really until I was 18/19, so it was a relatively new thing. I didn't play much music in school.

I have teenagers, so I listen to a lot of music. They turn me on to great music.

I chose life over death for myself and my friends... I believe it is in our nature to explore, to reach out into the unknown. The only true failure would be not to explore at all.

Of all the paths you take in life, make sure a few of them are dirt.

The future is in the hands of those who explore... and from all the beauty they discover while crossing perpetually receding frontiers, they develop for nature and for humankind an infinite love.

I just wish the world was twice as big and half of it was still unexplored.

Nature makes penicillin; I just found it.

An understanding of the natural world and what's in it is a source of not only a great curiosity but great fulfillment...