Quotes About Open-mindedness

I find it somewhat liberating to jump, to dive into things that are the opposite of me.

I think to put someone in a box is somewhat narrow-minded.

I always knew I was going somewhere - going out. I just knew. I just knew. I just knew there were a lot more points of view out there.

I've been in Africa, America, moving around a lot. It's helped me to open up my mind. I was born in Jamaica; I've lived all my life there and got all I could from Jamaica. But I needed to be somewhere else to grow.

It's been really cool to me to watch someone like Sam Hunt, whose lyrics and roots are in country but you can hear that he listens to Drake and Justin Timberlake - and that's OK. It allows songwriters to be more honest because it's like, 'This is who I'm listening to.'

When I came home my parents were listening to Pakistani Qawwali music, like Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, they're listening to music from Mali, like Ali Farka Toure, they're listening to Brazilian songwriters, like Gilberto Gil, to opera, to Neil Young even, things you don't hear as a kid in Caracas. I love all the music they turned me onto.

My determination is not to remain stubbornly with my ideas, but I'll leave them and go over to others as soon as I am shown plausible reasons which I can grasp.

Do not resist a new idea. Be quietly receptive. Go along with it, even unwillingly at first. Sooner or later, it will reveal itself as your ally.

Do not let the word 'tripe' deter you. Let its soothing charms win you over, and enjoy it as do those who always have!

For better or worse, I've always been curious musically. Whether it's opera or Judy Garland or pop, I've deliberately sought those things out. I've never wanted to do the same things over and over. Some think I've accomplished what I set out to do, and others consider me a dilettante.

I look at people for their souls, and I can see myself falling in love with anyone after getting to know them and developing a relationship.

It may sound cliched, but it just shows that when you don't let people put you in a box then anything can happen.

People become so deeply attached to the sound of one period that they blow a fuse when you move on. I've heard people complain bitterly about recordings they haven't even heard.

If we took information only from sources with which we agreed on all issues, we would be left with merely quoting ourselves, and we would miss a great deal of truth.

If you go to Paris, try to speak French. If you go to the South, try to speak Southern. Southern isn't stupid. Southern is narrative; Southern is family.

I navigate different cultures daily, and I understand how people can make false assumptions because of their lack of interaction with the cultures I find myself in. But if they don't frequent these spaces much, how can they rush to judgment?

Judge tenderly, if you must. There is usually a side you have not heard, a story you know nothing about, and a battle waged that you are not having to fight.

Find your freedom through questioning everything you hear and see. Be free to choose, from all possible perspectives and opinions, what builds love and harmony.

I have never seen as far, than those times I have looked through someone else's perspective.

Have a big enough heart to love unconditionally, and a broad enough mind to embrace the differences that make each of us unique.

Try not to judge others. Because someone might have gone through something that you wouldn't have survived if it happened to you.

Just because you don't like peanut butter doesn't necessarily mean you can't like . . . peanuts.

There are a world of answers, outside the loop.

Intolerance is a form of ignorance which must be mastered before any form of enduring success may be attained.