Quotes About Evolution

I like to create a sound and then leave it behind.

People become so deeply attached to the sound of one period that they blow a fuse when you move on. I've heard people complain bitterly about recordings they haven't even heard.

On the musical side, I always wanted to kind of carry on Pink Floyd's sound. You know, Pink Floyd always had such an original, creative and masterful sound, but there are no new albums. My thought was that there's a way to keep their sound alive.

Once you have an established song, you can really come out of your shell and experiment with the sound you want to make.

When Soundgarden formed, we were post-punk - pretty quirky.

There are a handful of Soundgarden songs that work acoustically, but only a couple. It's not who we were.

As soon as it sounds fine, I'm on to the next thing, man.

Names, once they are in common use, quickly become mere sounds, their etymology being buried, like so many of the earth's marvels, beneath the dust of habit.

It sounds like I work at Hallmark, but every day is a journey and you get better and that's the whole point of life.

Obviously, you want to honour the sound of your music, but I'm definitely open to trying new things and making myself use a different palette of sounds.

The thing that's good about Hip Hop is that it has experimented with a lot of different sounds and music.

Just like any songwriter, the songs come out of where I am in my life and what I'm doing and who I'm hanging out with and the kind of sounds I'm imagining. I always loved the idea of it evolving in the same way that life changes.

The dubbing of the music and effects is really incredible today. You're feeling gun shots. I mean, it's not the way people say it is, but the gunshot sounds real. And cars sound real. Among the many things in the evolution (of movies) is to make the sound in the movie incredible. That's what you feel.

Writing for me is quite a plastic form, a kind of mental sculpture, although that sounds weird. It acquires its character and its depth as it goes along.

I know it sounds really lame and hater-ish, but I think 2009 was maybe the worst year for music ever.

It all sounds almost silly, but the fact is that the only way to change a corporate culture is to just change it.

Music is the soundtrack to your life. It's not going to go anywhere. But the way people are purchasing music has changed. It's not the same anymore. It will never be the same.

Every generation has its soundtrack.

I think that purists may regard the '80s and Jerry Goldsmith being the quintessential example of film scoring, but that was also a very prominent type during a time when soundtracks were purely songs, and there was very little score.

The loneliest, most down-on-his-luck person can have a dog who adores him. The most bitter, sour person can light up with joy when he sees his dog. It is magical, and as 'The Dog Master' reveals, it is biological - we evolved together.

Open source can propagate to fill all the nooks and crannies that people want it to fill.

I won't sit here and say an Open Source project will do things faster than a closed source, but one of the reasons why is that it sits on a whole lot of things that came before it.

New schools, hospitals, clinics, factories, bridges, dams, and airports tell the story of a South Africa that has indeed moved forward.

Now, of course, we know there has been an end to apartheid in South Africa, but what excited me was seeing it in the context of history.