Creativity Quote by Gary Wright

Wright’s line reads like a shrug and a dare at the same time: stop asking art to behave. Coming from a musician who rode the sweet spot between radio-friendly melody and cosmic synth drift, “The more far-out artists, the better” is less about being weird for weird’s sake than about protecting the ecosystem that makes pop feel alive. He’s arguing for a cultural supply chain where the strangest experiments upstream eventually become tomorrow’s hooks, textures, and attitudes downstream.

The intent is practical, not mystical. “Far-out” is a 60s/70s word with a grin in it, but it’s also a quiet rebuke to gatekeepers who treat innovation as a nuisance. Wright spent a career in eras when labels demanded singles and audiences demanded familiarity, yet the sonic vocabulary was exploding: synthesizers becoming lead instruments, studio effects turning into storytelling tools, spirituality and sci-fi bleeding into mainstream songwriting. His own work sits in that lineage of artists who made the “out there” feel intimate, even danceable.

Subtext: you don’t get safe hits without a constant infusion of risk-takers willing to fail loudly. “Better” here isn’t moral; it’s competitive. A scene with more eccentrics has more options, more friction, more cross-pollination. It’s also a defense of permission - for younger artists to be unmarketable early, for audiences to tolerate confusion, for music to retain its ability to surprise rather than just satisfy.