Narciso Rodriguez Quotes

I think that that's the way the music grows and changes and becomes new and creative and vital. It's by synthesizing elements from all around it and not to maintain this kind of rigid myopic kind of tunnel vision, in a sense, trying to maintain a certain kind of purity, or whatever.

Creativity can be described as letting go of certainties.

You can't plan everything - if I did a performance exactly how I rehearsed it, it would be so boring.

I don't follow any system. All the laws you can lay down are only so many props to be cast aside when the hour of creation arrives.

We always have a take that's 'one for fun', so once you've got what you need, you can do what you like. Something does occasionally pop out of that tree. I'm always open to ideas.

I try not to do anything by formula.

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

I actually found not having a routine was inspiration.

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

I just like blending all the genres together but blending them up in a good way. I try to be as free as I can with it.

Jazz is an octopus. It will take whatever it can use and it will work with it.

I believe that eclecticism is a virtue. It may not be a word, but its definitely a virtue.

You can't write a script in your mind and then force yourself to follow it. You have to let yourself be.

I've never really had a certain style of music in mind that I make, or am really adamant on how something should sound, but I like the process of not knowing, of just seeing what happens and what comes out.

It's impossible for me to feel like there's only one way to do a thing. There's nothing wrong with having one way of doing it, but I think it's a bad habit. I believe in range. Like, there's a lot of tunes that I play all the time-sometimes I hear 'em in a different register. And if you don't have complete freedom, or you won't let yourself get away from that one straight line, oh, my goodness, that's too horrible to even think about.

It's best to incorporate a broadly eclectic point of view, and let whatever moves you be your inspiration.

I'd rather play here in this small bar and just do a good show. Because it's fun and there's no expectations, it's encouragement to be different, do something new.

I haven't stuck to any formula. Most great writers stick to the same style, but I wanted to be more various.

I'm playing all the right notes, but not necessarily in the right order.

I had no idea what I was doing when I wrote 'Search.' There was no carefully designed work plan. There was no theory that I was out to prove.

I love to play things that are out-of-the-box. It's just that I don't always get the chance to do it!

I've always been sort of addicted to genre-jumping. I've never been in the mood to do the same thing I did last time. Hence, me going from 'Big Love' to romantic comedy, to period film... I can't sit still.

When I try to write I try to write something different every time. That's the challenge.

Usually I like to improvise. Sometimes, depending on the nature of the piece, I like to improvise because I think it brings certain freshness and a reality to it, as long as it doesn't go too far out of the box.

Always my collections are made of different influences.