Quotes About Evolution

Whether it be in comics, games or film, you can trace the art direction and influences back to some earlier, real-life historic period or artistic movement.

You can go through comic strips alone and study the common man. You can trace our history.

You can trace the entire history of Britain by looking at gardens.

There are still traces of discrimination against race and gender, but it's a lot different than when I started out. It just comes quietly, slowly, sometimes so quietly that you don't realize it until you start looking back.

I learned that the first technology appeared in the form of stone tools, 2.6 million years ago. First entertainment comes evidence from flutes that are 35,000 years old. And evidence for first design comes 75,000 years old - beads. And you can do the same with your genes and track them back in time.

To be honest with you, I don't have one track that I consider better than the next because all I'm trying to do is still grow as an artist. I got way better since the early nineties, as far as putting words together. My best energy probably was the '90s, because I was new.

You think your life is going one way and then suddenly, you're on another track.

I followed most of the 80's bands into the 90's as most of those folks who hadn't moved away were all still active. However, there was a point when I lost track of the new bands coming up.

The first dolly track was somebody who had the idea to put the camera on a boat on a canal. So the boat would move very slowly but steadily. So they would see all that surrounds you and you'd see the landscape changing slowly. So that was the first time.

The fact of the matter is that 40 years ago, unless you bought the record, you couldn't hear the music. It was such a narrow track in comparison to today.

I don't think I'm repeating anything I've done before, but sometimes I lose track.

You have to create a track record of breaking your own mold, or at least other people's idea of that mold.

I like to look at things that have been developed and re-developed over the course of time so I know the bugs are worked out of it. And in the business itself, I like to look at sales, by far. I want to see that there is a vetted track record of sales to show the price point has worked.

When I get inspired, I give out free music. If you look at my track record from the beginning, that's always what I've done. I've never changed.

Amazon has a good track record for blowing up industries, and fashion needs to look at what has happened to music, publishing and media.

The banked oval tracks are obsolete tracks for Indy cars.

Some tracks are with quartet and some tracks are with synthesizer.

In the 1960s, people were trying to get away from the pop song format. Tracks were getting longer, or much, much shorter.

I didn't really feel that there were any filler tracks on 'The Red Shoes,' but if I were to do that album now, I wouldn't make it so long.

I never made beats to make beats; I only made them when there was a record to make them for. That's one of the things that has changed in hip-hop that's made me like it less. It feels much more like it's a producer-driven medium, where there are all these tracks that are completely interchangeable.

Most remember the groundbreaking first in sports; few remember the third or fourth to follow in those tracks. That's not downplaying anyone's achievements but rather recognizing that there comes a time when simply being there is no longer good enough for the record books.

I feel like, for me as an artist, it takes me a while of living with the tracks and living with the body of work to realize what it's all about.

I have watched music go from an art form into an industry. And I have watched it stop dead in its tracks because of the digital age.

I don't want people to expect the hard tracks to continue my whole career. When I started making music, I wasn't making music like that.