Anthony Fantano Quotes

I'm a fan of originals and classics, but I'm also a fan of new ideas.

I'm always trying to come up with something new and unique. I do a beatbox with a harmonica.

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

What makes our world so fascinating is that continuously there are novel and creative ideas spurring people to leave old ways and try something new.

Imagine something new, or you will only go where you have been.

If it's genuinely new, when people are hearing it, they're not really gonna be comfortable because they haven't heard it a thousand times before.

What I feel like science fiction fans respond to is just people trying to hit them with something new, something they haven't seen. And if you do that you'll be okay.

I'm one of the culprits who keeps turning stuff around, shaking up original tunes and trying to stand the canon on its ear. But sometimes, you just need to sing the song.

All I ever wanted to do, personally, was bring something new to what I loved: the thing that I loved the most, the music that I loved the most.

One of the interesting things an artist does is they keep rediscovering things, whether it's a jazz piece or a role you've done for 3,000 performances or a song you're singing for the 3,000th time. My job is to find that spark that keeps it fresh and alive.

As an artist, you tend to gravitate to the opposite. I know, when I finish a song or an album, I'm interested in doing something completely new. It doesn't always happen, but that's the idea. My poor fans - I don't know if they love that or hate that.

I want to encourage Filipino artists to be original, write your own songs and don't be afraid to go outside the box and try new things.

There is a reactionary conservative side of classical music, which is not the most exciting side of it. The side that draws me in, there's a real encouragement of risk-taking, going back to masters of that tradition like Beethoven and Bartok and Stravinsky.

Sometimes just allowing yourself to noodle without any structure will enable you to stumble upon great new ideas, culminating in creating your own distinct voice on the instrument.

I feel like my music is like - there are always new influences in there.

Artists are always looking for new things and fresh ground and fresh air. If it feels new to me, there's a chance it'll feel new to the audience and we'll have found something.

Originality, of course, is what occurs when something new arises out of what's already been done.

...to invent is to discover that we know not, and not to recover or resummon that which we already know

When something is new and hard and bright, there ought to be something a little better for it than just being safe, since the safe things are just the things that folks have been doing so long they have worn the edges off and there's nothing to the doing of them that leaves a man to say, That was not done before and it cannot be done again.

We all have to open our minds, stretch forth, take chances and venture out musically to try and arrive at something new and different.

My goal... not to go back to Rembrandt... but to bring the great tradition and whatever is great about it, up to date.

I dont want to create a monster; I want to make something which is new, exceptional, something that only I do...something that references tradition, but is still new.

Being creative means first of all doing something unusual... On the other hand, however unusual it may be, the idea also has to be reasonable for people to take it seriously.

Someone, somewhere has a better idea.

New ways I go, a new speech comes to me; weary I grow, like all creators, of the old tongues. My spirit no longer wants to walk on worn soles.