Bill Veeck Quotes

What's missing from pop music is danger.

I am hellbent on defying your expectations, at every turn, and even if you don't like what's being done, I dare you to find it uninteresting.

One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries.

That's the tricky thing these days: being able to surprise people.

Every once in a while, when the audience is expecting to see one thing, you have to show them something else.

My plays have been strange from the beginning, and they never got unstrange.

I'm not a creature of habit. I like to find things from unexpected sources.

All our projects are like fabulous expeditions. The story of each project is unique. Our projects have no precedent.

People get surprised by my choices. But that comes from me looking for something new.

I like to present something that the people haven't seen or haven't heard before. Otherwise they might as well just stay home and play the record.

I'm always very excited by something that's a curveball or from left field.

One thing I like about jazz is that it emphasized doing things differently from what other people were doing.

I like to do something different that people don't expect. That's what I've always been about, in everything I do.

I'm always excited by the unlikely, never by ordinary things.

Originality is dangerous.

Serve the dinner backward, do anything - but for goodness sake, do something weird.

Don't ever empty the bucket of mystery. Never let people define what you do. It's not about zigging when you should zag. It's not about doing something unprecedented and unpredictable. It's just about never being a word, or something that is not in the process of transformation.

I think probably with any performer, but maybe with rock music especially, the audience wants to see the singer being real, and exploring, and not doing a rehearsed routine, so I'm just constantly looking for new things to try. I'm really curious out there, and my curiosity has led me into all kinds of bizarre situations.

I like to do things that are surprising and different.

The BBC knew I was successful from early on, but they weren't sure why, and they still aren't sure. What I do has been unconventional from the beginning, so they've never been sure. It just works. It just does.

All I really want to do is things I haven't done. 'I'm gonna put a paper bag on my head and be on the cover of 'Billboard,' see what I can get away with - if they'll let me.' And they let me. And I am literally giggling inside for, like, a month that I got away with it.

I like the unknown. That's what Terry Malick has always really liked. He's always looking for the unexpected.

I think I wanted my solo debut to be very unpredictable.

Any time people are breaking outside the norm and playing something that isn't expected - that feels like punk to me.

The works we do in Moooi are very diverse, very eclectic. That's how we like it.