Scott Storch Quotes

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

I feel like I'm just trying to pave my own lane and just kind of make my own sound.

I wasn't trying to sound like anybody else. Basically, I was just experimenting all over the place.

What I ended up learning was that I had to do what I do well, and do it really well and say, 'Maybe there is no pop music that sounds like this now, but I can make it so maybe tomorrow what I like can be what everybody likes.'

When you got a sound that don't sound like nobody else and it's brand new, you've got to feed it to 'em. You've got to force it on 'em.

It's not enough to play the old songs; that feels like being your own covers band or something. It's a big release to do new stuff.

I like to make the music that I really love. You're supposed to make your favorite music that no one else played, and I'd like to just keep it at that and not really change it at all.

I am not doing comedy because the genre is successful. If that was the case, I would have done a run-of-the-mill comedy film. I set my own trends. I like to give something new and different to my audiences. I want to do the kind of comedy that has been missing till now.

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.

Being an artist is in part an act of rupture.

It's all about risk-taking when you're making an album. Don't be scared to do weird things sometimes.

All the blues greats took chances and developed their own style. They didn't copy.

I love people who break boundaries and always create something new and fresh.

But I've always liked to be the kind of drummer and musician who likes to go outside of what's expected of me, and I've always been able to do more than you necessarily hear with every band I've ever played in.

I always say that in my career as an actress, I've always worked with people like David Lynch or Guy Maddin or Peter Weir who are considered not mainstream directors and that could be because they are like my dad. They are pioneers, and pioneers, by definition, invent something new.

When we started the band, it was because we were waiting for a sound that never happened. We got tired of waiting, and we decided to just do it ourselves.

Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.

Since I was in my early twenties, at ABC, I was always only interested in things that were not already being done.

Just trying to be different - when I hear something - I don't like to go trampling on other people's sounds.

What I want to happen is to be really creative, and to play something new in the improvisations, every time.

Tradition is the great misleader because it's too easy to follow what has already been done - even though you may think you're giving it a kick. I was really trying to invent, instead of merely expressing myself.

I tend to just do whatever I want on an album and try to make it work. I'm just adventurous. It's most exciting to be at the edge of your abilities. I want to see how far I can push things.

If a musician dares to get out of the box he's been put in, people get confused. They want people where they can find them! I am fortunate in some respects as I've always been known as someone who 'moves around' and tries different things. But generally, we are supposed to stay where we're put.

I want to be a band that people haven't seen.

Nintendo's philosophy is never to go the easy path; it's always to challenge ourselves and try to do something new.