The Rise of the Creative Class Quotes

“The creative individual is no longer viewed as an iconoclast. He—or she—is the new mainstream.”
― Richard Florida, The Rise of the Creative Class--Revisited

“It's not that gays and diversity equal high technology. But if your culture is not such that it can accept difference, and uniqueness and oddity and eccentricity, you will not get high tech industry.”
― Richard Florida, The Rise of the Creative Class: And How It's Transforming Work, Leisure, Community and Everyday Life

“As the economy has become more specialized and the occupational division of labor has deepened, the Creative Class has increasingly outsourced functions that were previously provided within the family to the Service Class.”
― Richard Florida, The Rise of the Creative Class--Revisited

“Music, in fact, plays a central role in the creation of identity and the formation of real communities. Musical memories are some of the strongest and most easily evoked. You can often remember events in your life by what songs were playing at the time. Simon Frith writes that music “provides us with an intensely subjective sense of being sociable. It both articulates and offers the immediate experience of collective identity. Music regularly sound tracks our search for ourselves and for spaces in which we can feel at home.”20 It”
― Richard Florida, The Rise of the Creative Class--Revisited: Revised and Expanded

“If you are a scientist or engineer, an architect or designer, a writer, artist, or musician, or if your creativity is a key factor in your work in business, education, health care, law, or some other profession, you are a member.”
― Richard Florida, The Rise of the Creative Class--Revisited

“the Creative Economy is driven by the logic that seeks to fully harness—and no longer waste—human resources and talent.”
― Richard Florida, The Rise of the Creative Class--Revisited

“Beneath the surface, unnoticed by many, an even deeper force was at work—the rise of creativity as a fundamental economic driver, and the rise of a new social class, the Creative Class.”
― Richard Florida, The Rise of the Creative Class--Revisited