Quotes About Evolution

As you go through your career you learn what works for you and what doesn't and you pick things up with experience.

You definitely pick stuff up when you go back and listen to older material.

My style was established in the Forties and Fifties, then got dragged through the decades and picked up a couple more things on the way.

One role blends into the next role. I mean, there's strange idiosyncrasies from roles that I play that I picked up that will never go away.

It's funny: when I started playing bass in 1984, you had guys like Paul Simonon fron the Clash, John Paul Jones, Lemmy, and Nikki Sixx was the head guy in Motley Crue, and you had all this post-punk stuff like Magazine and Killing Joke where the bass sort of lead the way. Not that I picked it to sort of be a main dude, but it intrigued me.

Everyone gives 'Picket Fences' credit for being so willing to delve into issues that now would be no big deal. But it was then. It was ahead of its time.

These things don't just come, arrive and settle like a bird picking up a few bits of crumbs. They develop. I think the best word for these things is develop. They develop because of the human beings who just happen to be there at the time.

There is two different Donald Trumps. There is the Donald Trump of the '90s... Now you've got this other one. The post-dementia Donald Trump who just loves picking fights because, I think, he's a lonely man.

Clapton was just picking up ideas. He picked up some of mine like I picked up some from the people before me.

There's different aspects of the game you have got to pick up along the way. I think I am picking it up fairly quickly and I'm learning all the time and I can only get better.

Before refrigeration, most food was heavily salted. Many of these salted foods have persisted, such as sauerkraut, pickles, cured anchovies, cheese, salted butter, ham, corned beef, sausage, and bacon. We still eat these things because we like them. But they are no longer the mainstay of our diet.

As the artist picks his way along, rejecting and accepting as he goes, certain patterns of enquiry emerge.

It is the framework which changes with each new technology and not just the picture within the frame.

I think The Big Picture was such a huge shift from my second record.

Every picture has been a learning opportunity for me.

I've been in on the beginning, the rise, peak, collapse and end of the talking picture.

I jump into the process, and the record begins to gel at some point. Then I begin to get a picture of where I'm going. But it's not always something I know on the front-end.

Children's picture books are a unique record of social evolution: in gender roles and racial politics, as is much discussed, but also in fashion and interior design.

You must adapt to the situation. This is where the pictures come from.

Digital technology is the same revolution as adding sound to pictures and the same revolution as adding color to pictures. Nothing more and nothing less.

I had no trouble going from radio to TV - I just thought of TV as radio with pictures.

Look at pictures of me growing up. It wasn't always the way it is now. It was a bumpy road for me.

In the beginning, I was very insecure. I hated how I looked in pictures.

I think a few pictures at a time.