Rick Wakeman Quotes

It's something I have always tried to do in my career - play outside the box.

I want to do everything I can possibly do to step outside the box.

Creativity seldom thrives in an atmosphere of great discipline or scrutiny. That's one reason we tend not to want our leaders to get too creative.

To be successful, you don't have to have all this crazy start-up capital or a ton of knowledge. I think it's actually helpful sometimes to not know all the rules because that way it's easier to break them.

It always helps to have someone who can say, No, we can do it faster this way, or We have to break the rules, even our own rules, to get things done.

I have always lived my life outside of the box. I find it to be way more fun there.

I like more the fact that I like to think out of the box. Thinking out of the box goes along with dressing out of the box and living out of the box.

I just wanted to make something in the world and worry about the rest of it later and not get too caught up in rules.

You have to learn the rules to be able to know how to break them.

Really interesting things come because you don't know what the rules are, what you can and can't do.

If I'd observed all the rules, I'd never have got anywhere.

I'm a visionary. I'm not a maintenance person.

I think a lot of people study the rules too much and then don't know how to be creative.

I really like it when you can step outside of what's come before and find a surprise for the reader and find a surprise for yourself.

A scientist worthy of a lab coat should be able to make original discoveries while wearing a clown suit, or give a lecture in a high squeaky voice from inhaling helium. It is written nowhere in the math of probability theory that one may have no fun.

I've never taken any issue off the table for lack of suitability. Only for lack of imagination.

Before I do anything, I think, well what hasn't been seen. Sometimes, that turns out to be something ghastly and not fit for society. And sometimes that inspiration becomes something that's really worthwhile.

Scientists who play by someone else's rules don't have much chance of making discoveries.

The innovator, however, must in the first place be discontented, he must doubt the value of what he is doing or question the accepted ways of doing it. And secondly, he must be prepared to take fresh paths, to venture into fields where he is by no means expert. This is true, at least, of major forms of innovation; they make it possible for other men to be expert, but are not themselves forms of expertise

I like to reinvent with each project, in any which way possible.

Sometimes breaking the rules is extending the rules.

Embrace risk. The driving force behind our economic model at Illumination Mac Guff is designed to preserve the opportunity to take risk. Subvert the expectation of the audience. Surprise them with unexpected choices.

I just want to keep pushing the envelope without it feeling forced.

Question everything. Don't try to emulate someone else's path. Look at what you have, the tools you have, the place you're in; know the rules, and break them.

The people who succeed are those who are aware of the rules; they respect the rules. But they make up their own rules. They create for creative sake.