Quotes About Evolution

It's interesting how people who were once fairly radical can become, later in life, kind of conservative, and not just in terms of politics - how, if you're an artist, you can start out being somewhat avant-garde and then end up doing landscapes.

Over the years, my 'Door' paintings have become somewhat mythologized.

If you look at who you were a year ago and aren't somewhat embarrassed, you're not growing as a person.

Over the years, my goals have changed somewhat.

Everything changes and, somewhere along the line, I'm changing with it.

Soon it's all going to be digital anyway. It's all going to be saved on a little coin somewhere.

Everything has to evolve. Music has to go somewhere. That's what keeps it fresh.

We just want to outdo ourselves every time we come back somewhere.

I stay somewhere for a couple of years and then think, 'What next?' I find it easier to challenge myself by going to different clubs, environments, and playing with different players.

Somewhere in that 20-year period, I would assume that there will be some basically new approach that will begin to cut into it, but it's got a long time.

Every exit is an entry somewhere else.

It's been my experience that every time I think I know where it's at, it's usually somewhere else.

I would join a band, learn from that band and be committed and passionate and bring my thing to the band. Then, when I felt like we were going to repeat ourselves, and I needed to learn more, I would go somewhere else.

If companies don't think systemically enough - if they try to capture too much of the value - eventually, innovation moves somewhere else.

I was heavily influenced by Melle Mel, Kool Moe Dee, Grandmaster Caz, but I kind of wanted to take it somewhere else.

The biggest lesson to me is that I got the music from somewhere else - the notes, the music my parents listened to, and the stuff I listened to at every age. All of that inspired the music that I made.

There are only a few players who play in the same team all their career. You come from somewhere and go somewhere else.

It's just part of the NFL. There's going to be moving parts constantly. There's going to be roster changes. There's going to be coaches going somewhere else.

The monarchy that I hand over to my son is not going to be the same one that I have inherited.

Music is a continuous process. You evolve with every song.

It is quite normal these days to record a song in the absence of the composer.

It is easy to get an interesting loop to happen, but it becomes a collage when the song and loop are constantly changing.

With 'Philharmonics,' I had to do a lot of interviews, and it was like I was corrupting something. In many ways, I've said everything in the song. And either I can't go back to what it was because it's changing when I play it, or I still haven't figured out what the song is about.

In blues music, there's a lot of borrowing, so it's often difficult to identify the originator of a song.