Quotes About Primitive

Jazz is the favorite music [of America]. It is a type of music invented by [American] Blacks to please their primitive tendencies and desire for noise.

We probably, as primitive people, made music before we actually had a language, and that's where language comes from.

Music is essentially built upon primitive memory structures.

One thing I've tried to do in writing music is take on very basic things, very archetypal things.

Self-defense is Nature's eldest law.

I want to retreat back to living off the land and just being in nature, experiencing life in the most pure, natural way possible.

The primitive style makes nature look like stage scenery.

An individual cannot be considered entirely sane if he is wholly ignorant of scientific method and structure of nature and so retains primitive semantic reactions.

An individual cannot be considered entirely sane of he is wholly ignorant of scientific method and structure of nature and so retains primitive semantic reactions.

Poetry is not a civilizer, rather the reverse, for great poetry appeals to the most primitive instincts.

The Senate is the last primitive society in the world. We still worship the elders of the tribe and honour the territorial imperative.

The emotional brain existed long before the rational brain.

For me there is something primitively soothing about this music, and it went straight to my nervous system, making me feel ten feet tall.

The uncontrollable mystery on the bestial floor.

One often hears of a horse that shivers with terror, or a dog that howls at something a man's eyes cannot see, and men who live primitive lives where instinct does the work of reason are fully conscious of many things that we cannot perceive at all. As life becomes more orderly, more deliberate, the supernatural world sinks farther away.

Do you believe that you really have a desire to learn, or would you, had you been left alone from birth, be totally primitive and beastlike in your thoughts and feelings?

Nebraska is raw, primitive, ancient, other-worldly, spiritual, nihilistic, heartbreaking, horrifying and a whole bunch of other things that come to you like apparitions whenever you enter its province (ideally under cover of darkness).

It would be astonishing if the details of a primitive, static society's collapse had any relevance to hidden dangers that may be facing our open, dynamic and scientific society, let alone what we should do about them.

The genealogy of the modern redistributive state—with its notorious tendency to foster identity politics—can be traced back not to any sort of "primitive communism" but ultimately to violence and war.

There have even been attempts to calculate income levels and Gini coefficients for Palaeolithic mammoth hunters (they both turn out to be very low).1 It's almost as if we feel some need to come up with mathematical formulae justifying the expression, already popular in the days of Rousseau, that in such societies 'everyone was equal, because they were all equally poor.

The view of the cross as the sacrifice for the sins of the world is a barbarian idea based on primitive concepts of God and must be dismissed.

I was using tape loops for dancers and dance production. I had very funky primitive equipment, in fact technology wasn't very good no matter how much money you had.

Religions are illogical primitive ignorance. There is nothing as ridiculous and tragic as a religious government.

It's just really tragic after all the horrors of the last 1,000 years we can't leave behind something as primitive as government-sponsored execution.