Primitive Quotes - Page 8

• There are a lot of chapters to the banjo's history. Part of it are the roots in Africa, where it's a more primitive instrument. Then it comes to the United States where it morphs into the slave music that they created here, which was very African in origin.

  Bela Fleck

  Roots, United States, Slave

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Lighting was very primitive. And still it was really the way to learn because sometimes some of the modern technology is so extreme and so compartmentalized that we lose sight of exactly what we're doing.

  Haskell Wexler

  Technology, Sight, Way

  "Remembering Oscar-Winning Cinematographer Haskell Wexler". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. December 29, 2015.

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• 17th century philosophers were not in a position to understand the mind as well as we can today, since the advent of experimental methods in psychology. It shows no disrespect for the brilliance of Descartes or Kant to acknowledge that the psychology which they worked with was primitive by comparison with what is available today in the cognitive sciences, any more than it shows disrespect for the brilliance of Aristotle to acknowledge that the physics he worked with does not compare with that of Newton or Einstein.

  Hilary Kornblith

  Psychology, Disrespect, Mind

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• I'm a member of the Primitive Baptist Church, and they will buy every CD that I have released, but they don't me just to bring the instruments much into the church.

  Ralph Stanley

  Cds, Church, Baptists

  "Remembering Bluegrass And Banjo Legend Ralph Stanley". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. June 24, 2016.

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• The world is still being battered by the Western/white/Christian supremacy dogmas and practices, by the most primitive and fundamentalist 'principles'.

  Andre Vltchek

  Christian, White, Practice

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• It [is of] some advantage to live a primitive and frontier life, though in the midst of an outward civilization, if only to learn what are the gross necessities of life.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Civilization, Midst, Advantage

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• ...I use primal imagery, so maybe it's fitting that I use the most primitive of cameras [pinhole cameras]. Since there's no viewfinder, the image is much more of a surprise - as if some outsider came and looked at earth for the first time.

  Barbara Ess

  Cameras, Use, Earth

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• Since the dawn of time, primitive humans thought, loved and had poetry. They also pooped on everything. It was horrible.

  Dana Gould

  Dawn, Horrible, Humans

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• I hate the present modes of living and getting a living. Farming and shopkeeping and working at a trade or profession are all odious to me. I should relish getting my living in a simple, primitive fashion.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Fashion, Hate, Simple

  Henry David Thoreau (2011). “The Journal of Henry David Thoreau, 1837-1861”, p.342, New York Review of Books

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• "Work" does not exist in a nonliterate world. The primitive hunter or fisherman did no work, any more than does the poet, painter, or thinker of today. Where the whole man is involved there is no work.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Men, Doe, Hunters

  Marshall McLuhan (1964). “Understanding media: the extensions of man”

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• Sometime in the last 50,000 years, before 12,000 years ago, a kind of paradise came into existence. A situation in which men and women, parents and children, people and animals, human institutions and the land all were in dynamic balance and not in any primitive sense at all. Language was fully developed, poetry may have been at its climax, dance, magic, poetics, altruism, philosophy. There's no reason to think that these things were not practiced as adroitly as we practice them today and it was under the boundary dissolving influence of psilocybin.

  Terence McKenna

  Children, Philosophy, Men

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• Which is not really a hell of a lot to ask, Lord, because the final incredible truth is that I am not guilty. All I did was take your gibberish seriously... and you see where it got me? My primitive Christian instincts have made me a criminal.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Christian, Criminals, Finals

  Hunter S. Thompson (2010). “Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream”, p.87, Vintage

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• I'm very pessimistic about adaptations from one medium to another. I've got a very kind of primitive, Puritan view of it. I tend to think that if something was derived for one medium, then there's no real immediate reason to think that it's necessarily going to be as good or better if adapted into another one. There have been very good stage plays that have made some very good films. But there are not so many differences between the theater and the cinema as there are between the cinema and, say, reading a book or reading a comic.

  Alan Moore

  Real, Book, Reading

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• It may literally turn out that a Hottentot, an educated and literate Hottentot it is true, but one who is a member of a relatively primitive society, would be able to make bombs.

  Herman Kahn

  Would Be, Bombs, May

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• Discovery is adventure. There is an eagerness, touched at times with tenseness, as man moves ahead into the unknown. Walking the wilderness is indeed like living. The horizon drops away, bringing new sights, sounds, and smells from the earth. When one moves through the forests, his sense of discovery is quickened. Man is back in the environment from which he emerged to build factories, churches, and schools. He is primitive again, matching his wits against the earth and sky. He is free of the restraints of society and free of its safeguards too.

  William O. Douglas

  Moving, School, Adventure

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• It is the mark of a primitive society to view regression as progress.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Views, Progress, Regression

  Neale Donald Walsch (2005). “The Complete Conversations with God: An Uncommon Dialogue”, p.677, Penguin

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• Islam is at once the most and the least interesting of the world's monotheisms. It builds upon its primitive Jewish and Christian predecessors, selecting a chunk here and a shard there, and thus if these fall, it partly falls also.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Christian, Fall, Interesting

  Christopher Hitchens (2011). “God is Not Great”, p.90, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• Mine was, as it were, the connecting link between wild and cultivated fields; as some states are civilized, and others half-civilized, and others savage or barbarous, so my field was, though not in a bad sense, a half-cultivated field. They were beans cheerfully returning to their wild and primitive state that I cultivated, and my hoe played the Ranz des Vaches for them.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Hoe, Savages, Half

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Citizen Thoreau: Walden, Civil Disobedience, Life Without Principle, Slavery in Massachusetts, A Plea for Captain John Brown”, p.98, Graphic Arts Books

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• Photography is our exorcism. Primitive society had its masks, bourgeois society its mirrors. We have our images.

  Jean Baudrillard

  Photography, Mirrors, Exorcism

  Jean Baudrillard, Peter Weibel (1999). “Fotografien”, Hatje Cantz Pub

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• Like it or not, we're still a primitive tribe ruled by fears, superstition and misinformation.

  Bill Maher

  Superstitions, Tribes, Misinformation

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• Musically Bob [Dylan] is a primitive. He's not a Gershwin, or somebody that uses eloquent music terms.

  Al Kooper

  Use, Bob, Dylan

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• Scientists believe they may have discovered a primitive form of life on Jupiter's moon Europa. That primitive form of life? You guessed it, Frank Stallone.

  Norm MacDonald

  Believe, Moon, Jupiter

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• For some reason or other there was in me the desire to see the world clean and fresh and alive, as primitive things are clean and fresh and alive. The so-called documentary picture left me wanting something.

  Aaron Siskind

  Desire, Alive, World

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• It's the same thing as a primitive of Africans, Indians, nomads or whatever - when they start getting up and doing their ritual and doing the dance, it's just what's coming through. It's the spirit. Rock 'n' roll is still primitive.

  Van Morrison

  Rocks, Rock N Roll, Spirit

  The Ritchie Yorke Project Interview, ritchieyorke.com. April 21, 2015.

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• We might think that we're really intellectual and we're going to check out the library to research the meaning every time somebody puts out a new record. It's still primitive stuff. It's the same now as it was at the beginning. It's no different now. Rock 'n' roll is spirit music-it's just coming through people.

  Van Morrison

  Thinking, Rocks, People

  The Ritchie Yorke Project Interview, ritchieyorke.com. April 21, 2015.

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