Quotes About Evolution

I think that at one moment you're apt for one thing, and at the next moment you're apt for something else.

I just don't think it's true that people can't do something else after they've done something that seems so permanent.

When climate goes away as an apocalyptic concern, something else will emerge. No doubt about it.

I think music is something that can, and should, be used to get you into different things because eventually what goes up must come down - we're not going to be the number one group in the world forever - so you have to have something else to fall back on.

Something else has happened with computers.

When everything in a person's life is gone, ripped-out gone, it's not that you stay empty for so long, so you replace it with something else very quickly.

I really liked them, not just Syd, but all of them. Roger was very important, I thought, his contribution. And so was Rick's organ playing. It was a good band. It became something else completely, obviously.

Don't think you are going to go on forever because you are not and begin to plan something that will compensate as you reduce your capacities to leap or turn on this or that or the other, begin thinking of something else.

Coltrane was moving out of jazz into something else. And certainly Miles Davis was doing the same thing.

I achieved what I want to achieve and I want to continue doing something else.

I'm glad about what's happening to the music business. This last crop of people we had in the 90s, who are going away now, they didn't like music. They didn't trust musicians. They wanted something else from it.

You can always affect things - so can you change it in a way that will make you as happy with it in the future as you were in the past? Maybe it won't be the same, but it might be something else you also like.

Nothing lives up to what you imagine. It changes, shifts, becomes something else.

There's real peril in trying to repeat yourself, and apply rules that applied to something else to a new project.

Like everyone else, I want to go on dancing forever, but I know the day is going to come when I will have to be doing something else.

It's just very dull. Talking about yourself and about something that you've got less interest in than you had, because you've always moved on to something else.

I write songs to turn myself into something else. And then I become that, and I want to become something else.

When you achieve a certain amount of success, you want to be doing something else.

In fashion design, you can divide people into two groups. You have people who come with an aesthetic that is there forever, even if it evolves. Then you have people I call 'jumpers.' One season it can be this; the next season it's completely something else. I always knew I am more of a jumper.

I feel I understand now why, whenever there are revolutions, Shakespeare is what people turn to. Because whenever a society is on the cusp, about to become something else, they find themselves in Shakespeare.

You write a book, and after 50 pages you think it's about one thing, and then you write another hundred and you realize it's about something else, and then by the time you're done, you can look back and say, 'Oh, this is what it's about.'

I can create clothes for so many different time periods. I've always tried to avoid being pigeonholed. Plus, everything I learn about design and costume from one movie somehow works its way into something else.

I don't think I could have just kept writing the 'Richard Jury' books. It wasn't that I was bored or dissatisfied. I just had to write something else.

One drawing demands to become a painting, so I start to work on that, and then the painting might demand something else. Then the painting might say, 'I want a companion, and the companion should be like this,' so I have to find that, either by drawing it myself or locating the image.