Quotes About Eclectic

I had a gypsy upbringing, so I moved around all over the place and can't remember a street I grew up on.

I think one thing you could probably say for all my albums is that they're all pretty eclectic pop. There's always a little bit of urban influence, some dance, a little bit of country, singer-songwriter, pop-rock. I like everything! On every album you can find that.

My work has been much more Caribbean and eclectic. I am interested in people, and where they come from happens to have fallen within an area of Africa.

I work constantly but I work at a lot of different things. You know, I run a theater company in New York, I direct plays, act in plays, in movies, so I try to keep it eclectic.

The only reason my work seems to be eclectic up to a certain period is because I was a failure as an actor.

I'm not faithful to one particular medium, and it's what I try to teach to people who work with me.

I'm kind of a pop culture stew, you know.

I'm a plethora of stolen jokes and kitschy references.

I love shopping in New York just because you walk around and find a little store you've never saw before, and you're like, 'Oh what's that? This is my new favorite place.' I love that about New York.

It's very schizophrenic because I like a lot of very straight pop, like Small Faces, Stones, Kinks; and on the other hand, I like a lot of avant garde things.

I've always been interested in strange foods, coming from all different places.

the counters and center island were crammed with mason jars and novelty saltshakers and cookie jars in the shapes of cats, blimps, pumpkins, frogs, robots, potbellied demons, and other things.

I always liked music that was melodic, but that had something a bit more wonky and odd going on too.

I've always chosen incredibly different roles and things that are quite offbeat. That way you're not limited.

I listen to top 40, old country, blues... I'm really into Roger Miller.

My kind of cooking is not a single style - French, Asian, Australasian or British - it's not modern, old-fashioned or classic; it's a mix of all these things. And at its core is a boy who loved to cook with his Nanna.

I never want to be just one thing - I want to be multidimensional.

That is what I always said as I don't want to be one-dimensional; I don't want to just hit homers or have to walk or bunt to get on base.

I'm pretty open. I like doing different things.

Sou omnívoro de sentimentos, de seres, de livros, de acontecimentos e de batalhas. Se pudesse, comeria toda a terra. E beberia todo o mar».

Like almost all of Beefheart's recorded work, it was not even "ahead" of its time in 1969. Then and now, it stands outside time, trends, fads, hypes, the rise and fall of whole genres eclectic as walking Christmas trees, constituting a genre unto itself: truly, a musical Monolith if ever there was one.

I'm not really frightened by experimenting - that's the main thing. I really like mixing very old beautiful pieces that are from thrift shops or that have some historical value with quite new futuristic things.

My only preference is to have a lot of variety and diversity in the material that I work on.

I really feel actors should try and do as much diverse work as possible to try and keep it interesting.