Quotes About Eclecticism

Heavy metal is not usually my thing. But I love everything. I love good music, period.

From Michael Jackson to Peggy Lee, I like it all.

I listen to Miles Davis and Slipknot.

I like a bit of mongrel myself, whether it's a man or a dog; they're the best for everyday.

GN'R was five guys who were all into different things. I liked pop and disco, Izzy was into New York rock, Slash loved Aerosmith and Led Zeppelin, Axl was into Genesis and Elton John, and Duff was a punk rocker. We all blended that stuff together.

Variety is the soul of pleasure.

One day, I'll be listening to a bunch of Ray Charles, the next day it's nothing but Red Hot Chili Peppers. The next day it might be Tupac all day.

That has always been my initiative, to do my own thing and take things that don't really go together and put them together. Wear a tuxedo jacket with some track pants, whatever I feel like, whatever I think is dope.

I could never be a member of a single party. I want the best of all worlds, thank you.

I'm kind of bipolar in my acting choices because I just want to do a little bit of everything.

When I came home my parents were listening to Pakistani Qawwali music, like Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, they're listening to music from Mali, like Ali Farka Toure, they're listening to Brazilian songwriters, like Gilberto Gil, to opera, to Neil Young even, things you don't hear as a kid in Caracas. I love all the music they turned me onto.

For better or worse, I've always been curious musically. Whether it's opera or Judy Garland or pop, I've deliberately sought those things out. I've never wanted to do the same things over and over. Some think I've accomplished what I set out to do, and others consider me a dilettante.

While I am not a musician, I love music. I have over 15,000 songs on my iPod. Everything from hard core rap to the soundtrack from the original 'Cinderella.'

While writing 'The Orientalist,' I played a soundtrack that alternated between ragtime and Azeri mugams, Russian operas and German and Italian pop songs from the 1920s and 30s. When I finally finished, I gorged on all my music from the 1960s, 70s, and 80s.

the grace is being able to like rock music, symphony music, jazz … anything that contains the original energy of joy.

We soaked up everything from Beethoven to Chopin to Jimi Hendrix to Joni Mitchell and Bob Dylan.

I love to mix everything together. It's really my way to see beauty.

I like to mix things up and I take inspiration from many different art forms.

I like to mix things up.

It's definitely a different mix of people than we see in Hollywood. That's what makes the Derby unique.

I've always strived to keep mixing it up, keep doing different things, and work in all different parts of our business.

There is no kind of music I don't listen to. Everything good is interesting. I am as happy with a Bach fugue as I am with a record by Thelonious Monk.

I've purposely made my music to be challenging and different. There's some electronics, R&B, blues, Motown, country, jazz and lots of soul.

besides which Lucille would never understand me because I like too many things and get all confused and hung-up running from one falling star to another till I drop.