Quotes About Eclecticism

I'm trying to bring a little bit of every type of sauce into one type of sound. Something that's really fresh.

I've always liked all kinds of different types of music.

To be honest, I enjoy all different types of films and experiences.

I really love all types of music. I'm really open to that. I really love Bruno Mars, Justin Timberlake and some James Taylor and Elton John stuff.

I've been lucky to listen to lots of different types of music.

I listen to all types of music so I'm influenced by everything.

I like many types of music and probably too many to mention here.

If I've done anything intentional about my career, is that I really have not - I've chosen to try to do as many different types of things as possible. That's really what I like to do.

I listen to all types of music.

I listen to everything: noise, classical, jazz. I like lots of different types of food. There's no way you could get me to eat the same meal everyday, so why would I do the same with music?

As soon as I get a typical day, I'll know I'm in trouble. I like doing different things all the time.

I continue to believe, contrary to the given wisdom, that it's more interesting to have an album - or, indeed, an individual song - which has variety rather than homogeneity.

For me, great music doesn't just have to fall into one category or one genre and I love appreciating all kinds of music.

I don't focus on one thing. I play guitar and bass and keyboards and drums, but I never stay on anything long enough to become a specialist at it.

I wouldn't be happy to be a specialist. There are some very interesting artists in history who refused to be nailed down into a category, like Da Vinci or Jean Cocteau. You could say Cocteau was a great poet but also a film-maker, interested in theatre, sculpture, and could never identify with any of these forms exclusively.

I always felt different because I didn't pick one specific clique or group to be a part of, and I didn't choose one thing to be. I cheered, sang in chorus, was in student government, played in rock bands, went to dirt races in western PA... My interests have always been diverse.

I like everything, jazz and classical, and all over the spectrum.

I listen to a lot of different stuff, from Mozart to Johnny Dowd to Monster Magnet. I don't listen to music while I'm writing a draft, but I do listen to it when I'm revising.

I went through my adolescence having this revelatory experience - I can have any music I want, and I can get it immediately. For me and for a lot of people I know, there's this musical eclecticism that happened.

I've been a children's book editor, a nanny, a camp counselor, a barista, a research lab assistant, and a movie theater ticket-taker.

It takes all sorts of people to make the underworld.

Some bow to the spirit of collectivism, while you ascend to the spirit of your own eclectic rhythms.

I'm a magpie in my fiction, taking whatever looks shiny and curious to line the nest of my story.

But then anyone who's worth anything reads just what he likes, as the mood takes him, and with extravagant enthusiasm.