Taste Evolution Quotes

When we become expert in something, our tastes grow more esoteric and complex.

Great art stretches the taste, it doesn't follow tastes.

Songs come from all over the place. You can't predict what you're going to like. You might like something that doesn't fit right now. What was working for you at one point, something you've loved for years and years, when you get together with everybody, you think, this doesn't match up with what's going on with you personally.

It is as common for tastes to change as it is uncommon for traits of character.

There was a time when I could only relate to happy works. With time, my taste has evolved.

Some people love some music, and they hear it a year later and they think, 'What was I thinking?'

I think I have better taste now than I did then.

Just because you liked something as a youngster doesn't mean you have to like it as an adult. You can change your taste a little bit on the sweets and things like that.

I am an American man, and in America, we still think of figure skaters as little girls in pretty, sparkly dresses - I worked very hard to change the perception and image of figure skating, and I think I've done a great job on my end, but in figure skating, taste needs to evolve.

When I was little, I used to love eating peanut butter sandwiches with tomatoes, and they would have to be on potato bread. I loved them. It's so weird, and I can't imagine eating it now, but I used to love eating them. It's a lot of flavors.

I wasn't a big science fiction aficionado, there were a few films like 2001 or Blade Runner that were favorites of mine, but since I started this series I have gained more respect for the genre and become more of a fan myself.

There is no reason why the same man should like the same books at eighteen and at forty-eight

People call things 'vulgar' when they are new to them. When they have become old, they become 'good taste.'

It's always good to update your food. It's always exciting to learn and update new flavor profiles.

I was a vegetarian for a really long time, from 7 to 23, so I feel like some things aren't that weird but they seem weird to me, like blood sausage or snails. Those are things I've eaten now that, years ago, it would have been totally improbable that I would have eaten.

Animals' taste systems are specialized for the niche they occupy in the environment. That includes us. As hunters and foragers of the dry savannah, our earliest forebears evolved a taste for important but scarce nutrients: salt and high-energy fats and sugars. That, in a nutshell, explains the widespread popularity of junk food.

Reform is a work of time; a national taste, however wrong it may be, cannot be totally changed at once.

I could say diamonds are a girl's best friend, and that never changes. But the taste for art did change.

Things are always going to evolve and change. You might not always like the direction of it, but people's tastes change.

I grew up not liking coffee, even though I'm from Brazil. Then I realized when I moved to San Francisco that it's not that I don't like coffee, I just didn't like the coffee I'd had before. I fell in love with my morning cup of coffee, and my second one at 11 A.M., and so on and so forth.

There's an artist that I listened to for the first time, and I really didn't like them. I had some kind of adverse reaction, and later, it became my favorite thing.

This young wine may have a lot of tannins now, but in five or 10 years it is going to be spectacular, despite the fact that right now it tastes like crude oil. You know this is how it is supposed to taste at this stage of development.

The album that really got me interested in how to create weird sounds, and pretty much changed my life, was 'OK Computer.' Funnily enough, my parents bought it for me because it was recommended to them, and the first 2 times I heard it, I absolutely hated it.

They say your taste palate changes every seven years, so maybe your personality changes every five, you know?

People want what they want, for as long as they want it, then tastes change and something else works.