William Shatner Quotes

The genre of science fiction is a fun house, an amusement park ride, but it's also a problem. The question that's always being indirectly asked is this: 'Just who do we think we are and, further, who do we want to be?'

Music is not math. It's science. You keep mixing the stuff up until it blows up on you, or it becomes this incredible potion.

In science fiction, we're always searching for new frontiers. We're drawn to the unknown.

I don't know if science and reason will ultimately help guide humanity to a better and more peaceful future, but I am certain that this belief is part of what keeps the 'Star Trek' fandom going.

There's an effort to reclaim the unmentionable, the unsayable, the unspeakable, all those things come into being a composer, into writing music, into searching for notes and pieces of musical information that don't exist.

Science fiction encourages us to explore... all the futures, good and bad, that the human mind can envision.

I think no matter what kind of music you play, there will be moments when you feel like it's all been done before.

I'd say that it's important for music to be there that gives you a challenge, that rearranges things in your head.

Music has to keep moving. But I was lucky. For me there was always something around the corner.

Everything was so fresh and unique to us - it was a whole new world of music. Michael Jackson was so fresh, you know? We could approach it with such fresh ears, which wouldn't be possible if we had been listening to it when we were younger.

I have a curiosity that compels me to find ways to make music that are fresh and new.

These are the sort of things that push you on in music - the curiosity, a passion for new ideas.

You need the past as a guideline. The history of music is a good basis, but to escape that stuff, that tortuous rulebook, you have to learn it first. It's kind of like religion - once you've written the Bible, that's it, move on.

I didn't really know what I was doing when I started. I just started writing songs. After two songs I just continued to explore it.

I think that Yes' music is kind of on its own out there, and it goes through different chapters, and that involves different people. I don't think it's a case of 'any year is better than any other.' They can all co-exist quite comfortably.

It's never too late to do anything new when it comes to music.

I'm always looking to create new avenues or new visions of music.

To keep creating something with this type of music, you have to take it out of the box.

Any talk of 'craft' makes me laugh. My music looks outward; it does not gaze upon itself in admiration. Artisanal is for cheesemakers. I don't know anything about music theory. Every time I approach my guitar, it's like the first time. There's no craft in that.

I was in the studio so much, it was about the search for air in a metaphoric sense, and the breathing has more to do with travel for me, about the search musically for open air.

I think music needs danger; it needs risk.

The possibilities in sci-fi are wonderful. The subject is bigger than everything we know.

Science fiction writers aren't fortune tellers. Fortune tellers are fakes.

Tunings are wonderfully inspiring, and it helps you to write music. If I'm stuck, you know, I change the tuning.

You have got to make new music, that is the way that I look at it anyway.