Quotes About Stereotypes

Computer games don't affect kids; I mean if Pac-Man affected us as kids, we'd all be running around in darkened rooms, munching magic pills and listening to repetitive electronic music.

Most of America don't even listen to music probably. They just go raccoon hunting or something.

I've worked with some great orchestras and amazing classical musicians, but I don't like the conceptualization of classical music as an elitist form of art.

It's hard to be taken seriously if you're a young, female artist making pop music; you never know how people are going to react.

There's only so much you can do with a male voice in dance music.

Music itself was color-blind but the media and the radio stations segregate it based on their perceptions of the artists.

It was unlikely that anyone had ever heard a black person sing country music.

People do dismiss ambient music, don't they? They call it 'easy listening,' as if to suggest that it should be hard to listen to.

I'm half Jewish, I'm half black, I look in-between. I dress funny. I play all these different styles of music on one record. It's like, What is he doing?

I am passionate about music - and people think because I go to places where I can enjoy music I have to be partying. It isn't true.

It's sad that people listen to music and decide how the singer should look.

People never ask people doing serious music, 'Do you ever think about doing funny music?'

People seem to think that folk music is people with acoustic guitars. Or punk music is people with mohawks, leather jackets.

You don't see a lot of black rock stars. The music industry tends to be segregated stylistically. It's hard for a black artist to cross over to rock music.

Racism is the dogma that one ethnic group is condemned by nature to congenital inferiority and another group is destined to congenital superiority.

You're either a really good hooker or a really good mom. That kind of conflicted nature is very much a part of being a woman.

Women, by their nature, are not exceptional chess players: they are not great fighters.

The very nature of the Chinaman holds him back. If his fellow should fall, John thinks it quite proper that he stamp on the underdogs face.

People think that because of my nature and the tone of my voice that I'm stupid, and that's hard.

I will not allow it to be more man's nature than woman's to be inconstant.

Nature is an unpleasing, stupid, lumpy, blowsy wench.

Men are the Rosie-the-Riveters of parenting. They're brought in only when needed, and considered disposable thereafter.

These girls probably use double negatives and watch "A Shot at Love with Tila Tequila" with their babies instead of reading Eric Carle.

The future lies in unity and respect, not division and stereotypes