Quotes About Evolution

People say I am stuck in childhood, but it's not that. I remember seeing a Matisse retrospective, and you could see he started out one way, and then he tried something different, and then he seemed to spend his whole life trying to get back to the first thing.

I tried to - I wanted to work at Blockbuster.

The one mentality I've always tried to have is that no matter what stage in your career that you are in as a musician or a performer or a songwriter or whatever, there's always more to learn.

I've tried different things through the years to get some play on mainstream. I'll try to tailor-make it.

We all tried rapping, we all tried singing, we all tried different kinds of styles and performances, so we naturally found our perfect spot.

I tried to make a distinct point that I wasn't retiring - that I was moving on.

I've been singing one kind of genre for a long time but have always tried to push to new auras about picking new songs or the same kind of genre but trying to sing it differently, treating it differently.

I'm proud that with 'Bright Eyes' we've always experimented and tried to make a different record every time out.

The history of ideas is littered with the corpses of those who have tried to define culture.

I've just tried to grow up in the most natural and gradual process that I possibly can and make choices I feel are right for me and my fans.

Even when I was young, with a limited amount of money and exposure, I tried to look my best. I like to follow trends and stand out. I have always had that fashion sense. But with the time, age, money, and experience, I have made a conscious effort to stand out.

I've tried a lot of careers: sports, dance. I've kind of pinpointed what I'm not good at to figure out what I'm good at.

Each generation tries to disassociate itself with the last generation. And then, about three decades later, people kind of start to maybe appreciate what you might have done a while back that you don't even realize you did.

Every film tries to advance the state of the art, at least a little bit. Brand new techniques? A lot of them are just evolutionary: we're just building on something that's like something we've done before and just trying to do it a little bit better or make it a little bit more realistic.

I think that every band tries to mature their sound through their existence, you know?

Remember the refrain: We always build on the past; the past always tries to stop us. Freedom is about stopping the past, but we have lost that ideal.

Every now and then, someone comes along - we used to call it 'New Jack' - tries to do something new, tries to take all the credit, without acknowledging the past.

Hollywood looks backwards and tries to repeat. And we really try not to do that. We don't always succeed, but I really think that what we try and do is different.

Everyone has changed, haven't they? Everyone tries to get better; everyone tries to grow.

My constant endeavour is to offer something new to the audience. Every movie I pick, including 'Loafer', which offers a strong mother sentiment, tries to give the audiences a sense of watching something different.

One of the catches with being a dope artist is saying the same exact thing a trillion different ways, and being able to get across somehow differently every time. The way to express maturity and growth and evolution is to do that throughout the music.

I consider my first three films a trilogy and I was finished with discussing the topic of teenagehood and coming of age.

'Pose' has basically been a trip for everyone. We're all in different phases of our individual evolutions, but we've embarked on the journey together.

Beautiful people are always with us, as evolutionary psychologists and a trip to the news-stand confirm.