Quotes About Open-mindedness

My mum and dad used to listen to a lot of R&B and soul, so this was the way I grew up. Hip-hop, of course. But then as I grew older, I started listening to everything.

Being a Malayali, I had to learn Punjabi and Haryanvi to be able to jump into the music scene.

I've never wanted to be put into a box, not musically.

When my cousin sister got married to a Muslim boy, my family was baffled. All the brothers had abandoned her. But I said there is nothing wrong in it. We have not lost our sister. In fact, we got another family member in the form of that boy.

I'm my own favorite artist, but I love everybody's music.

I didn't really identify with the music of my own generation, but I was very curious about the music of others.

Most of the people that I spend my time around are people who listen to a whole lot of different kinds of music.

I don't consider myself to be that credulous.

People like to use the word 'naivete' as a negative, but not for me.

The most learned are often the most narrow minded.

It's good for people not to have a narrow mind. Good music is good music.

We never try to think in terms of any competitive product or company. If you do that, you just focus on a certain narrow area. Rather, we should think much more broadly.

I never understood bands who were only influenced by a narrow era of, say, five years of music.

Stereotyping of any race or culture is narrow-minded, and I can't wait to help break the shackles.

I had a very narrow-minded view on what was pretty and what wasn't. I automatically thought that tanned was attractive.

When it comes to talking about beating certain teams, we can be narrow-minded when we need to look at the bigger picture.

Kids are naturally curious about what they don't know, or don't understand, or what is foreign to them. They only learn to be frightened of those differences when an adult influences them to behave that way and censors that natural curiosity.

Those with limited views are fearful and irresolute: the faster they hurry, the slower they go.

The orgy room at Dave's Baths was democracy made flesh; race and social standing were checked at the door along with clothes.

Each generation ... rescues a new area from what its predecessors arrogantly and snobbishly dismissed as 'the lunatic fringe.

I want to urge you very strongly to travel as much as you can, and to evolve yourself as an internationalist. It's as important a part of your education as a radical as the reading of any book.

If you want to stay in for the long haul, and lead a life that is free from illusions either propagated by you or embraced by you, then I suggest you learn to recognize and avoid the symptoms of the zealot and the person who knows he is right. For the dissenter, the skeptical mentality is at least as important as any armor of principle.

The problem with open-mindedness is that it can become empty-mindedness

I learned that very often the most intolerant and narrow-minded people are the ones who congratulate themselves on their tolerance and open-mindedness.