Robert Benton Quotes

If you stick with one sound and one way of working, how will you ever progress?

Good ideas come from bad ideas, but only if there are enough of them.

I'm very conscious of the idea of trying to each time present something that I haven't presented before. It's a challenge to me to find something new, to find something innovative, but it's also very exciting.

I realized why I need to start a new company. Not for the money. Not because I'm 'bored'. But because a company is a laboratory to try your ideas.

I think that all my albums are different enough where I don't feel like I did this the last time.

Look around at day-to-day life for ideas, and it finds its way into your work.

The ultimate point of a piece for me is that it drives the next one. Does it open new doors? That's the success of a piece.

I do not like to repeat successes, I like to go on to other things.

Barriers have been broken: rappers are singing, and singers are rapping. You might catch a rapper on a rock song, a pop artist on a hip-hop song - there are so many different things that are going on today. That is the same way in which we live our lives; we're all over the place. I like to try different things.

Usually I like to have them, but going drum-less pushes everything in a new direction and makes it easier to keep things sounding different.

I don't believe in pitfalls. I believe in taking risks and not doing the same thing twice.

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

To swear off making mistakes is very easy. All you have to do is swear off having ideas.

Art doesn't just happen by accident. It is about pulling out new tricks and trying new things.

My remit has always been: I want to do something different from the last thing I've done.

I had opportunities to stay on shows for long periods of time, and maybe financially that would have been good, but I feel good about trying to keep doing things that are a little bit different than what I've done.

Fans should be encouraged that I want to try different things.

With any new medium, the full power is only unearthed with experimentation.

For me, I'm just trying to keep it fun, keep it interesting, not get stuck on the same sound, the same wave for too long.

If you look at my career, you'll find that the same record doesn't show up more than once. I try to challenge myself with every project.

There are so many ideas that I have in my mind, of projects that I would love to tackle, people I would love to work with, genres I would love to experiment with, and sounds that don't fit any of my previous projects that I need to find a home for.

If you don't take a risk then what's the point. We can't keep making films in the same space.

While I was a student at The Cooper Union, they discouraged too much of a focus on any one medium, and it helped me try new and different things.

Really, I get inspired by just switching projects and instrumentation and things like that - that creative part of just being different every time is really what inspires me.

I am very impulsive when it comes to experimenting with my looks and love playing with ideas by involving people from all walks of life.