Jackson Browne Quotes

Well, I like to be kept on my toes. I look for a challenge. I don't like to recreate steps that I've already walked. I like to see if I can create something new.

I really strive to bring something new to each book. I don't want to write the same book over and over again.

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.

You can see things growing up, be inspired by things. Just because they're not around anymore doesn't mean that you can't take those inspirations and bring them to life and bring them to the next generation.

Tradition matters. To me it's not a limiting force; it's a springboard.

Nothing I'm doing is without its predecessors.

Creating something new is the difficult part. To make it and build it and get everyone to follow? Amazing.

Coming up with something new and original is so exciting.

I can understand when people copy people of the past and make the future their own.

Nobody really invents anything that hasn't been done before.

Make something new, and define territory that's never been. I fall in love with shows because I've never see that before. I fall in love with new vocabularies.

What I like on Kickstarter is when I see real innovation and I see people building something new. It makes me sad when I see things that are just the same technology; you aren't passing the technology forward.

I watch people who are not driven by creativity any more, and I think how dull it must be to produce the same kind of thing. If you don't feel you're reaching something new, then don't do it.

Never forget that what becomes timeless was once truly new.

As a writer, you owe it to yourself not to get stuck in a rut of looking at the world in a certain way.

I never liked to copy things that are out there. I always like to come up with something new, something different.

I'm always looking for something new: a new inspiration, a new philosophy, a new way to look at something, new talent.

When you have such a huge past, a big background as we have, you can play off that - a lot of people do. But we felt we wouldn't have a legitimate future unless we put something new together.

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

It's so important to me that I feel like I'm doing something that's never been done before, whether that's in the show, or I'm writing a song. I can exist in this little box here, but I have to do something new with it.

Anyone who creates something new or does something different artistically is going to be singled out.

In the creative industries, there are few things more exciting than a zinger - a thought, idea, line, plot device - anything really, that just totally works in a fundamentally new and fresh way. It's like a uniquely lovely melody or a new taste idea in cooking. Something special, something new, something wonderful. They're also very rare.

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

I feel the way I always do about sequels. If there's an idea that excites me enough, and it feels like a way to do something new and fresh, then great. But I don't ever want to do a sequel just for the sake of doing a sequel.

It is godlike ever to think on something beautiful and on something new.