Horace Silver Quotes

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

I go into the whole composer thing quite open to keep on going and keep on trying different things because you never know... the next idea you have might be the one.

With my own music, I try to get away from things that are familiar and things that would be easy for me to go to.

One thing people always ask me is 'How do you play outside?' ... I have no idea how to teach that, but when I was discussing this with our bass player Jesse Murphy, he said 'tell them to go cliff diving'... In other words, when you're jamming, you have to take risks if you want to find new sounds.

Certainty is a closing of the mind. To create something new you must have doubt.

As a creative person, you need to sort of spread your wings and try different things out because each one really does inform the other.

I tend to keep my mind open to the different forms of art out there and I am always willing to try new stuff.

Maybe the biggest thing that I've learned musically is that anything is possible. Things can work when maybe they don't seem like they can.

I come from an art-school background, and I still feel that in my music, it's about exploration and challenging myself, about putting myself in a place that's frightening because I haven't been there before.

I think it's always important to constantly keep the band on their toes and try new things that you hope will work. That's how 'Apologize' was born, and maybe down the line another little song will be born by that mentality. I've always really liked that song.

Musicians are always eclectic. Musicians are always curious and hungry for new things.

I think it's important as a filmmaker, as any person working in the arts, that you've got to try new stuff and challenge yourself and take chances.

We stand for creativity and pushing boundaries and having fun with one's music.

I'm definitely a risk-taker with my music.

Surf music at the time that I did it wasn't mainstream, nor were the Cheech and Chong albums. The risk comes from having the ability to do something that hadn't been done before that I thought was either interesting as an art form or just should be done.

Creatively I just enjoy challenging myself in different genres.

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.

In the history of comics and movies and music too, it's always when things are at their bottomed-out, either creatively or financially, there's more chance-taking going on.

I think music needs danger; it needs risk.

What the world is saying to us human beings is, 'Don't stick to the old ways, learn to think anew.' And that's what musicians do every day.

I've had to keep exploring different ways of presenting the music so I don't repeat myself.

Innovation happens because there are people out there doing and trying a lot of different things.

I thought we were gonna open up the world of poetry and music to all kinds of things, and yet, I can't really think of anyone who's done anything like it since.

Miles Davis would have this lineup of all these amazing musicians and one day would just say, 'We're done.' After tons of great records and tickets sold, he said, 'Now I'm going to grow my hair out and play my horn through a wah-wah pedal.' Rather than play it safe, he went on.

Music is still my main thing, but I will explore anything that's interesting and challenging.