I find as much inspiration from the forerunners of jazz as…

We all listened to a lot of recorded music, especially American jazz, modern jazz, and that's where our studies were and our inspiration came…

— Evan Parker

I was serious about ballet for a long time, but my mom got me into tap and jazz and modern and hip-hop, and I…

— Greta Gerwig

I got into trad jazz, then modern jazz, then avant-garde jazz, between the ages of 16 to 18.

— Roy Harper

In general, I found that the more that debates can be about facts and data, the more likely government is to make sound decisions…

— Julius Genachowski

I guess I'd like to be known for being an innovator, fostering creativity, thinking outside the box. You know, keeping people playful.

— Nolan Bushnell

The idealist and dreamer will stubbornly go down with the ship. The serial innovator grabs the rudder and changes course.

— Larry Osborne

What's the DNA of a marketer? We call it the 4-I's: instigator, implementer, innovator, and integrator.

— Beth Comstock

Apple has long been a leading innovator of mobile technology; I myself own an iPhone.

— Al Franken

The most important truths always appear first as blasphemies or obscenities. That's why every great innovator is persecuted. And the sacraments look obscene, too,…

— Robert Anton Wilson

My father was an innovator. He's the first person who sang and set Rumi's poetry into music 35 years, 40 years ago.

— Hafez Nazeri

What is interesting to me is to find ways to work with early-stage innovators to build from the edge and work on tomorrows ideas.

— Julius Genachowski

You can absolutely be what you can't see! That's what innovators and disruptors do.

— Kimberly Bryant

I'm no innovator. If anything I'm a stealer, or borrower. I've stolen or borrowed from more people than you can shake a stick at.

— Bear Bryant

What counts alone is the innovator, the dissenter, the harbinger of things unheard of, the man who rejects the traditional standards and aims at…

— Ludwig von Mises

Education, for most people, means trying to lead the child to resemble the typical adult of his society . . . but for me…

— Jean Piaget