Quotes About Exploration

It was important to me to become day-to-day fluent and functional in another language, and about 10 years ago, I went to Rome for the first time and felt an instant gut connection and wanted to get to know the city.

You have to just go with your imagination, where your instinct takes you.

I think that's just a natural instinct as an actor is that you want to just keep exploring humanity and finding different facets of it.

If I hear a song that I like, my first instinct is to find out about who made it.

Progress is hard to measure in any creative endeavor, I think. It's often a matter of instinct, of feeling your way through what works and what doesn't.

I don't really know how to build a career or what to do. But I have the instinct to keep doing different things so people can see different things.

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 started writing when I was around 6. I say 'writing,' but it was really just making up stuff! I started writing and doing my own thing. I didn't really know what a demo was or anything like that, so I started getting interested in studio gear and started learning about one instrument at a time. My first instrument was an accordion.

It's been really fun to see what happens to my body when I don't have an instrument attached to it.

Back in the day, being a young, inspired bass player, I started to gravitate toward jazz fusion. I almost would have called myself an elitist. I got to the point where, for a little bit there, I was more interested in instrumental music.

I was drawing before I did music, but me, I'm a dilettante. I jump into everything until I find one thing that I enjoy more than others. Rap was something that was always there because my brother used to rap - piano and musical instruments is something I learnt on the way.

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.

It's cool to have instruments lying around because they give you different ideas.

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

Most of my colleagues have been insulated in Indian music alone - they did not think of the world beyond what they knew - but I always did and still do.

Play reaches the habits most needed for intellectual growth.

I'm really trying to dredge up what one might call intellectual and moral material. For example, when do you realize that you are an American? What age does that happen to you? When do you realize what religion your parents practice? When does it all become conscious? I was interested in exploring all of that.

Architecture is a ride - a physical ride and an intellectual ride.

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.

To take intellectual risks is to think about something that can't be done, that doesn't make any sense, and go for it responsibly.

I do have a peripatetic and active intellectual curiosity.

I tend not to approach things intellectually at first. Maybe after the fact i can look at it and see ultimately what it's doing. I start with the characters and their inner lives.