Quotes About Evolution

All the Vine creators, we knew our home, the place we started on was slowly reaching a plateau.

TikTok is the app that Vine should have been.

It is easily overlooked that what is now called vintage was once brand new.

My advice to new artists is to embrace a broader concept of timelessness than vintage or retro.

The most important thing is I am trying to bring classic rock into pop culture, so I don't think anything is going to look like vintage or old-school.

I don't know what the vintage Sonic Youth sound is.

I used to collect vintage clothing - exquisite lace dresses, embroidered shawls and ornate jewelry - but that's just not me any more.

I have always appreciated vintage clothing, but after working on 'Call the Midwife' for six months, I love moving away from vintage in my day-to-day wear.

I hardly ever listen to any of our old stuff now. Once the songs have been recorded and put on to vinyl they become someone else's entertainment, not mine.

In 20 years, a lot of things change, especially in music. From CDs to tapes to vinyl to digital now, you know, a lot changes.

It's also ironic that in the old days of tape and tape hiss and vinyl records and surface noise, we were always trying to get records louder and louder to overcome that.

Sure, we all like listening to music on vinyl, but that doesn't mean streaming music on Spotify is bad.

The history of the music industry is inevitably also the story of the development of technology. From the player piano to the vinyl disc, from reel-to-reel tape to the cassette, from the CD to the digital download, these formats and devices changed not only the way music was consumed, but the very way artists created it.

The decision about digital or film is going to be made for us. I think the answer is that film is gonna be gone, although I think it'll make a comeback; it'll be like vinyl records or something.

A new understanding of power is replacing our old understanding of power as the ability to manipulate and control. The old understanding of power has become counterproductive to our evolution. What used to be good medicine has become poisonous. Pursuit of the ability to manipulate and control now produces only violence and destruction.

The rise of man from the animal to the human level was prolonged by the necessity of rising from a state of barbarism and violence to one of order and peace.

Some of my films are known for the depiction of violence. I don't have anything to prove with that any more.

But does that mean that war and violence are inevitable? I would argue not because we have also evolved this amazingly sophisticated intellect, and we are capable of controlling our innate behavior a lot of the time.

Civilisation is partly about restraining the male of the species from engaging in the violence of the hunter-gatherer period. But it doesn't take an awful lot to unleash it.

Real change is always violent, but it may hurt a lot less than what's in place before the violence occurs.

We're such a funky species. We're so violent, so greedy - this is how we roll. But what are we going to do about it? How do we move forward given who we are? Because situations don't come out of nothing. They come out of certain conditions.

Pre-state societies were far more violent than our own.

I think, particularly in our tech industry, this is an industry that has violent innovation and then commoditization, and it's a cycle of innovation/commoditization.

Your chances of dying a violent death are 1/500th of what they used to be during medieval times.