Iman Quotes

I think in all cultural organizations there has to be renewal. I'm also of a certain age that someone new can come in with a breath of fresh air. Things change, and I think that's important.

When you stop doing something, it doesn't mean you are rejecting the previous work. That's the mistake; it's not rejecting it, it's saying, 'I have exploited it enough now and I wish to take a look at another corner.'

Each generation wants new symbols, new people, new names. They want to divorce themselves from their predecessors.

It's like a 'chicken or the egg' thing. We're all part of the culture. We're reflecting it; we're changing it. So, yeah, I think culture is always changing.

Every generation challenges the one that goes before.

The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress

Progress only happens with change, and people love something different.

There'd be no merit to replicating something, to repeating something. As artists and as musicians, you wanna continue to go in different directions and develop.

As generations come and go, Their arts, their customs, ebb and flow; Fate, fortune, sweep strong powers away, And feeble, of themselves, decay.

Revolutions are not made: they come. A revolution is as natural a growth as an oak. It comes out of the past. Its foundations are laid far back.

This middle age thing is a little weird. Some friends and mentors are gone, and there's a very forward-looking new generation coming up behind me. So it's very much finding my own place.

I never want to be playing the same thing, even season to season.

Change comes not from men and women changing their minds, but from the change from one generation to the next.

People always say I'm the Beatle who changed the most, but really that's what I see life is about... you have to change.

Wherever progress is to ensue, deviating natures are of greatest importance.

Interesting things happen along borders - transitions - not in the middle where everything is the same.

This opens the door on another chapter of history.

Football, like life, is about change.

Our lives are about development, mutation and the possibility of change; that is almost a definition of what life is: change... If you disable change, if you effectively stop time, if you prevent the possibility of the alteration of an individual's circumstances — and that must include at least the possibility that they alter for the worse — then you don't have life after death; you just have death.

Every civilization finds it necessary to negotiate compromises with its own values.

Nobody stays in the world that you've seen them in before.

This is what happens with a breakthrough. The first ones through the door often get bruised if not broken. Eventually, with a little political acumen and racial sensitivity and a lot of hard work, a smooth new place can emerge.

I just like so many different kinds of music that I like experimenting. I don't want to keep making the same record over and over and over. I'm an 'evolve or die' kind of a musician. I think it's cool to try new things.

I think each thing in a way acts as a stepping - stone for whatever the next thing is.