Music is essentially built upon primitive memory structures.

- Morton Feldman

Charles Darwin sailed around the world for two years on the 'Beagle,' and he had quite a bit of interest in things like the iguanas of the Galapagos, even though they were primitive compared to your average Englishman.

- Seth Shostak

When Europeans first came to Africa, they considered the architecture very disorganized and thus primitive. It never occurred to them that the Africans might have been using a form of mathematics that they hadn't even discovered yet.

- Ron Eglash

By many peoples' standards, my playing is very primitive but by punk standards, I'm a virtuoso.

- Robert Quine

When civilizations collide, it usually isn't the more primitive one that prevails.

- Rick Yancey

I'm just a very primitive, infantile folk singer.

- Robert Wyatt

Generalizing a type of people is really primitive.

- Priyanka Chopra

But primitive man had enemies real as well as imaginary, and they were not subject to priestly sorceries.

- Paul Harris

I am the primitive of the method I have invented.

- Paul Cezanne

Hip is the sophistication of the wise primitive in a giant jungle.

- Norman Mailer

Even primitive areas can produce a superstar.

- Ciputra

There are a lot of similarities between cyberspace and the frontier. It's pretty raw and primitive. I mean, you have to churn your own butter in cyberspace. You can't go down to the 7-Eleven and buy a stick of butter because it's not that well developed.

- Mitch Kapor

That is why we profess a spiritual kinship with primitive and archaic art.

- Mark Rothko

The Dalmatian breed of dog has many primitive characteristics.

- Louis Leakey

Most of the vices and mortal sins condemned today correspond to inclinations that were purely adaptive or at least harmless in primitive man.

- Konrad Lorenz

A contemporary artist can use the findings of all epochs and all styles, from the most primitive literary expressions up to the most refined products of the baroque.

- Juan Goytisolo

The prehistorical and primitive period represents the true infancy of the mind.

- James Mark Baldwin

When primitive law has once been embodied in a Code, there is an end to what may be called its spontaneous development.

- Henry James Sumner Maine

In action be primitive; in foresight, a strategist.

- Ed Koch

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

- Debbie Harry