Quotes About Variety

All sunshine makes a desert.

One common origin unites us all, but every sort of wood does not give the perfume of the lignum aloes.

Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and forms of government.

People are fed up with seeing the same thing over and over. They want a qualitative change.

It's better to have a lot of different qualities in the team; it's a good mix.

There is more difference in the quality of our pleasures than in the amount.

There are quantities of human beings, but there are many more faces, for each person has several.

I believe in binging once a week. This takes care of my cravings. I don't eat huge quantities when I binge, but I eat different varieties of food.

I can't compare quarterbacks as apples and oranges in my mind because everybody's in a different system.

A practical botanist will distinguish at the first glance the plant of the different quarters of the globe and yet will be at a loss to tell by what marks he detects them.

The Ultimate Queen Celebration is a little bit different. I take liberties with the amount of songs in the set that aren't necessarily Queen songs. I take some freedoms with The Ultimate Queen Celebration that I can't really do with The Queen Extravaganza.

I play music from Queen, to Elton John, to classic.

My overall quest is always to do something that's somehow different from whatever it is that I just got done doing. If that can include occasionally playing an older guy who has a romantic side and a romantic relationship, than that's a real treat.

It is possible to be different and still be all right. There can be two - or more - answers to the same question, and all can be right.

We're so quick to go to make things black and white, and to put things in their box. But everything is this mixture - and that's what this world is - is this blend of different things.

I'm always meeting new people, and my list of friends seems to change quite a bit.

America's a melting pot, all races, cultures, religious choices.

I guess there is also an element of deliberate change involved. Each of my books has been, at least from my point of view, radically different from the last.

I like to keep the big dynamic changes between my songs, so that album songs feel radically different from each other.

I always loved bands who would try to change their sound radically album to album, experiment in one album and revert back in another.

I'm not saying that what the radio plays isn't good. My issue is with what they don't play. You can play Jay-Z, but why don't you play Jurassic 5? You can play Nas and Nelly, but why don't you play J-Live? I want to open up the door to how it was back in the day.

I like so many different kinds of music just because all I did was listen to the radio as a kid.

Sometimes, you can't seem to find any song on the radio that you like.

I listen to either romantic classical music, Brahms or Beethoven or something like Mozart, or I go all the way contemporary and listen to Metallica or Adele, Radiohead, jazz, whatever it is that is completely opposite.