Quotes About Evolution

I've seen and learned enough to keep my music fresh and spread out.

Even experimental composers, revolutionary composers, self-styled radicals are, in writing revolutionary music, recognizing the music that preceded them precisely by trying to avoid it.

Classical music is a wonderful 1200 year-old tradition that witnesses everything that it has meant and what it means right now to be human.

You can't play anything on a horn that Louis Armstrong hasn't played

I've seen country music go uptown, like we say, and I'm proud I was there when it happened.

Rhythm and blues used to be called race music. ... This music was going on for years, but nobody paid any attention to it.

I've always considered music stores to be the graveyards of musicians.

I hate it when bands change between records. They're thinking before they make music.

Because I've been making music and releasing it for so long, I've got that production-line thing in my brain: I can't do anything new until the last one's out.

When I started working on electronic music, that was after the rave period. I haven't even seen that part of it that much.

I'm playin' music for a certain type of person. Fortunately, there are more and more of us. At least there are more comin' to see me than there were 30 years ago or so.

When we moved back to the US, folk music was all the rage. So I traded in my banjo for a guitar.

I started in New Orleans music and played all through the history of jazz.

In music, as I find myself forever saying, things don't get better or worse: they evolve and transform themselves.

In terms of creating new music, I'm willing to even branch out and take a slight gamble, but I'm not going all the way far left. I'm not trying to reinvent the wheel.

For some reason, the evolutionists have not come up with an evolution-based explanation for why human beings react so powerfully to music. But surely they will.

Rap is always evolving. It's easy for the old school to hate the new school, but it's a music that got a little stifled I think, by the Internet a little bit.

There is no real coming and going, For what is going but coming?

I've done a lot of growing up since the age of 16 and I really wanted that to be reflected in my music

My music, my whole approach to the synthesizer has completely changed now.

I always want to be growing in my craft. Any artist should - whether you paint, whether you do music or film - always grow and study.

I'm not trying to keep up or adapt. I'm allowing myself to grow, evolve and create new music.

Whenever there's a change with Jazz & its aesthetics, it's almost always reflected with a change in the culture.

Music that was made in the 60s and 70s did come from a really soulful place. The seed for the songs written in the 90s were planted in those songs, even though they were samples.