Neko Case Quotes

Nothing, believe me, nothing is more satisfying to me personally than getting a great idea and then beatin' it to death.

It's important not to overstate the benefits of ideas. Quite frankly, I know it's kind of a romantic notion that you're just going to have this one brilliant idea and then everything is going to be great. But the fact is that coming up with an idea is the least important part of creating something great. It has to be the right idea and have good taste, but the execution and delivery are what's key.

To me, the best of 'Jack' is when we have a very good, but small idea, executed to the nines.

Nobody ever died of discomfort, yet living in the name of comfort has killed more ideas, more opportunities, more actions, and more growth than everything else combined. Comfort kills!

I don't think my work is so strange. It's just a matter of having the discipline to go the whole way with an idea, to stretch it as far as it can go.

I have a creative mind, so if I listen to the song, I have an idea, I thought of five or six months ago, I'll bring it back into the playing field. I can tweak ideas or make them better. Just come up with something and then we go from there.

You're abandoning a lot of ideas when you are too into comfort. 'Comfy'-that's one of the worst words!

The seed of the idea is developed by both labor and the unconscious, and the struggle that goes on between them.

I get ideas about things I want to make and then I throw myself into it with everything I have.

If you want to have good ideas you must have many ideas. Most of them will be wrong, and what you have to learn is which ones to throw away.

If you want to have good ideas you must have many ideas.

An artist should be taking risks. That's the whole idea of being an artist.

Ideas in secret die. They need light and air or they starve to death.

An idea you have might not be original. But by creating a novel out of that idea you can make it original.

Big ideas are little ideas that no-one killed too soon.

To make something really great and different and interesting means taking risks and following these ideas in your head.

I think it is the general rule that the originator of a new idea is not the most suitable person to develop it, because his fears of something going wrong are really too strong... At age 69.

Never force an idea; you'll abort it if you do.

Ideas are of themselves extraordinarily valuable, but an idea is just an idea. Almost anyone can think up an idea. The thing that counts is developing it into a practical product.

To make an idea become a reality is a process that fascinates me; otherwise it stays just an idea.

If we want a better original idea, we must generate our own before we screen others' suggestions.

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.

If I collaborate with people, ideas...they take interesting turns and twists, and I'm excited for that and that process and excited to see what we come up with.

Who wants to put together something that will bear some relationship to the vision or memory or experience or story or idea or dream or whatever.