Synyster Gates Quotes

Our industry does not respect tradition - it only respects innovation.

I want to do something that people have not seen before... surprise everyone. There has to be variety in work.

I always want to do something groundbreaking, something different. I think that's what it's always about. If you have the means to do it, why not?

Innovation, being avant garde, is always polemic.

I see that idea that we need a new form as something critical. I mean, we do need to invent and not be benchmarking all the time. That's important to me.

I can be very modern and experimental.

We need these figures who don't exactly go against the grain but create a new grain.

Innovation doesn't care about anyone.

The job isn't to catch up to the status quo; the job is to invent the status quo.

My show was revolutionary, ground-breaking. When I came on the scene, people were not doing a thing.

If you are truly innovating, you don't have a prototype you can refer to.

You could use many adjectives to describe Silicon Valley; I don't think 'normal' is one of them.

The antidote to stagnation is innovation.

Without change, there is no innovation, creativity or incentive for improvement

Innovation is very important to me, especially professionally. The alternative, standing pat, leads to complacency, rigidity and eventually failure.

I don't like to say something's weird when it's innovative and fresh.

One of the key things in the tech business in particular is that you need to be able to push boundaries.

Always challenge the old ways.

If there's a new idea, a new invention, or a new gas, or a new whatever you know, It should be brought at least into the open instead of carrying these same old burdens around with you.

I have an almost complete disregard of precedent, and a faith in the possibility of something better. It irritates me to be told how things have always been done. I defy the tyranny of precedent. I go for anything new that might improve the past.

Everything we are doing is on the cutting edge of so many different industries and so many different interests. We're out there in the sunshine, and it feels fine.

The world has always gone forward when people have dared to have crazy ideas.

If somebody is young and brilliant and imaginative, he will be listened to, even if he is a little unorthodox.

I want to be cutting-edge.

I didn't expect such a huge reaction, but I knew I was doing something different to everything else that was happening at the time.