Bill Kreutzmann Quotes

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.

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

It's really fun to just stretch out and not have any boundaries or just try something for the craft.

I improvise a lot and try something new every couple of years.

I constantly want to do something new and surprise the audience.

I love to create something new every night onstage; that makes a big difference.

To be creative and spontaneous, you have to live with imperfection.

I'd rather experiment than follow the same formula. I'm a curious person. It's gotten me into trouble, but I say, 'Why not? Let's try it.'

We wanted to offer something new to our audience. I hate it when bands stop taking chances.

The apparatus has to serve our improbability and improvisation. Being good and playing the songs is not enough.

I think it's important for me, for my crew and for the audience to bring something new to each show. I have friends who have done the same act, word for word for word, for 20 years. I have a problem with that. I think the audience should see something new in each show.

I wanted each of my books to be very different from the others, each to be special and uncategorizable, and I knew I could only do that a few times before I was in danger of repeating myself.

I think when you've had success, publishers and reviewers and readers are willing to let you try something new if you've already proven yourself. They're excited about what you're doing, you have people interested in it, and actually waiting for it. It's empowering.

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!

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.

I'm not able to go in with an act that I use month to month year to year all the time. It's constantly evolving and changing and that keeps me on my toes but certainly adds to the challenge.

The only really good piece of advice I have for my students is, 'Write something you'd never show your mother or father.' And you know what they say? 'I could never do that!'

Always changing genres, making very different films is a good idea. It's a way of making yourself feel vulnerable again, getting back to that innocence. As is working within a circumspect budget.

You just go for it and see what works. There are no rules.

To be a good actor you have to be something like a criminal, to be willing to break the rules to strive for something new.

It's very important to understand that we never do the same thing twice; each of our projects is unique. We'll never do another 'Gates.' Each project is a unique image. We do not know in advance how the work will look. I do preparatory drawings, but they are only projections of our vision.

A true artist, in my mind, is willing to fail sometimes, because if you're not brave enough to say yes and follow your gut, it's never going to be good.

I try not to do anything by formula.

If you do the same thing every night, that's the death of music.