Quotes About Open-mindedness

Now that I'm older, I like almost anything that's done well, even surf music and instrumentals; I really enjoyed the interviews with the Ventures in your magazine.

You know, my music utilizes things from the past, because that's what the past is for. It's to learn from. It's not to limit you, you shouldn't be limited by it.

I don't care if a dude is purple with green breath as long as he can swing.

I don't worry too much about the fundamentalist principles that are in almost any discussion about Jazz.

Listen to music you don't even like and see why you don't like it.

I listened to many different types of instruments and music, and have always tried to look at the bass as an instrument as opposed to only a bass.

I don't want to limit myself musically. It would be really limiting if we'd neglect something we really want to do, like explore other styles of music.

I'm sure there are a few things in my CD collection that might surprise people. I like classical music, the blues, and I'm a big fan of alternative rock.

I feel like certain people think that certain styles of music will taint their jazz style.

If you really believe music is dangerous, you should let it go in one ear and out the other.

I sort of fell out of new music. I'm old, I like what I like, and that's that.

A little bit if listening with a passable ear will get an awful lot of messages anywhere.

I don't think radio has to be sectioned off where you listen to the music for your generation and your son listens to the music for his generation.

I like African and avant-garde music, anything that's vaguely interesting. Hard rock I get a bit bored with because it's what I do. So anything outside of hard rock's fine by me.

I love pop music, but I also love noise music, IDM - anything really, I get something out of most kinds of music. I just need to enjoy the process.

I believe in equality. Equality for everybody. No matter how stupid they are or how superior I am to them.

It is easier for a man to burn down his own house than to get rid of his prejudices.

I think it's a very firm part of human nature that if you surround yourself with like-minded people, you'll end up thinking more extreme versions of what you thought before.

Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every conceived notion, follow humbly wherever and whatever abysses nature leads, or you will learn nothing.

But Lord! To see the absurd nature of Englishmen that cannot forbear laughing and jeering at everything that looks strange.

I think being open-minded about what Nature is trying to tell you is the key to being creative and successful.

One can't be of an enquiring and experimental nature, and still be very sensible.

The most damaging prejudice consists of banning any kind of investigation of nature.

I want to see and taste and experience it all, I am curious by nature. I would actually really love to go to New Zealand.