Alan Parsons Quotes

We can always find creative ways to do things.

I make records with an open mind, I always have.

You can get so many sounds out of one record. Every record can be used in some way.

If I had a stock of fabulous sounds I would just always use them. I wouldn't bother to find new ones.

I think it's being innovative and very creative to stay away from flat-out sampling somebody else's record. To me, that doesn't show too much of your creative side unless you take a little piece and add it, almost like spice on a chicken.

I think I compose as a listener: improvising and listening back excites me because I get to ideas that never would have occurred. Then I bring in the computers and samplers... and I begin to loop and process and change them.

When I do a remix, I try to think about what I don't have in my bag and create something to fill that gap.

I worked on 'Cadillactica' with the mind to not sample as much and focus on creativity.

It all comes down to what you truly love doing, and what I love doing is overdubbing and making new sounds out of things that are sometimes quite ordinary on their own, but when you put them together, they make something new--or something that sounds new. Just discovering things like that musically is a pleasure.

I try to do something the audience might not have seen before.

Any schemes - such as 'think of symmetry laws', or 'put the information in mathematical form', or 'guess equations'- are known to everybody now, and they are all tried all the time. When you are stuck, the answer cannot be one of these, because you will have tried these right away...The next scheme, the new discovery, is going to be made in a completely different way.

I love the construction process and it is always important because we try to experiment and do something new, so the builders are not copying any technique from other projects. Everything is innovative and so I need to be there and be attentive to make sure everything is running smoothly.

I try not to go the obvious route all the time, but sometimes the most obvious is actually the best.

Don't worry about mistakes. Making things out of mistakes, that's creativity.

There's so many people out there who try to imitate what I do but I am the original.

Knowledge is the stuff from which new ideas are made. Thus, the real key to being creative lies in what you do with your knowledge.

I had a little more freedom when I started sampling because you could actually do what you wanted to do.

I probably have traveled and walked into more variety stores than anybody in America. I am just trying to get ideas, any kind of ideas that will help our company. Most of us don't invent ideas. We take the best ideas from someone else.

To use your head, you have to go out of your mind.

One of the enemies of creativity and innovation, especially in relation to our own development, is common sense.

I’m going to break one of the rules of the trade here. I’m going to tell you some of the secrets of improvisation. Just remember—it’s always a good idea to follow the directions exactly the first time you try a recipe. But from then on, you’re on your own.

I try my best to find variety in what I'm doing, but there's a lot out there that's the same.

The content could be done anyplace, but the real invention is the architecture. The architecture is the only work that really defines a new way of doing things. I think this point is fundamental.

Enterprise is first creativity. You need creativity to see what's out there and shape it to your advantage. You need creativity to look at the world a little differently. You need creativity to take a different approach, to be different.

Creative ability is often mistakenly attributed to inborn talent. It is about all the ability to connect one thing with another.