Quotes About Exploration

If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all.

I found that dance, music, and literature is how I made sense of the world... it pushed me to think of things bigger than lifes daily routines... to think beyond what is immediate or convenient.

Music, I think, is best when it honestly explores personal demons, and it stirs around in the silt of the psyche to find out what's really there.

We all do 'do, re, mi,' but you have got to find the other notes yourself.

I want to party in space because I make alien music.

I want to hear as much music as I possibly can before I leave this mortal coil but it's impossible to hear it all because there's so much of it.

Those who want to know what sound goes into my music should come to NY and open their ears.

From the very beginning of his education, the child should experience the joy of discovery.

Roaming through the jungle of "Ohs" and "Ahs", searching for a more agreeable noise, I live a life of primitivity with the mind of a child and an unquenchable thirst for sharps and flats.

One thing I like about jazz, kid, is that I don't know what's going to happen next. Do you?

Music mirrors where we should go, have gone and can go. Music is an abstraction.

To hell with the rules. I'm going for the unknown.

I always try to go where the excitement is, where the best music is. I dont care what kind of music it is. I go with the best artist we can find.

The way you change and help music is by tryin' to invent new ways to play

I believe in a long, prolonged, derangement of the senses in order to obtain the unknown.

The music had to be rooted, and yet had to branch out,like the wild imagination of a child.

I know that the twelve notes in each octave and the variety of rhythm offer me opportunities that all of human genius will never exhaust.

Nothing will stop you being creative more effectively as the fear of making a mistake.

I just finished a novel, and I'm back kind of noodling on the screenplays. Screenplays are tough. I am making music, I'm just not sure what kind of music it is or where it's going.

Analog, electronic, whatever it happens to be, I simply love and adore literally every aspect of making music.

Life is not about finding our limitations, it's about finding our infinity.

I've always told the musicians in my band to play what they know and then play above that. Because then anything can happen, and that's where great art and music happens.

They teach you there's a boundary line to music. But, man, there's no boundary line to art.

Music in general is looking for something new overall.