Each year, every city in the world that can should have a multiday festival. More people meeting each other, digging new types of music, new foods, new ideas. You want to stop having so many wars? This could be a step in the right direction.

It's not that we need new ideas, but we need to stop having old ideas.

Your plan doesn't speak to ideas. It doesn't speak to direction. I wouldn't read it.

His ideas parallel with our thoughts and the direction we want to take the center over the next several years.

The need to be right all the time is the biggest bar to new ideas.

The music map, the Vera Project — all of these are steps in the right direction in making the statement that Seattle is a place that has great art, and music is one of those forms of art, ... If the Vera Project is doing well, that means good things for Sub Pop, because those are kids who will want to be musicians or work at Sub Pop.