Quotes About Eclecticism

The uniqueness about me is I don't do one thing perfectly or great. I do a little bit of everything. That's what makes me so unique. I'm just trying to master a little bit of everything.

So creating a religion of your own, some people call this a smorgasbord religion. Taking a little bit from this and a little bit from that.

I was exposed to many kinds of music including rock and disco, classical and folk, Midtown and Miles Davis, Sly Stone and David Bowie.

I listen to all kinds of music - new music, old music, music of my colleagues, everything.

I never work with one inspiration in mind. I like to take things from everywhere and piece it together. It's never a theme or a trick.

Every organization has an allotted number of positions to be filled by misfits.

My work is never just fashion, landscape, or portraiture; it's always kind of an odd mixture of everything. I like muddling it together.

It is my philosophy that one should not excel in only one thing but try to strike a balance between different things.

I try to have a lot of influences, which is to say not to have one specific influence too strongly; that can end up badly.

I learned about embracing all different genres as opposed to just getting attached to one.

Eclecticisme voert de boventoon, zoals overal in België, van bouwstijl tot grondwet, van burgerlijk interieur tot moraal. De een noemt het anarchie, de ander liberalisme, een derde bric-à-brac.

mongrels . . . people who've bred back and forth with just about everybody and seem to enjoy it. You know . . . like Californians.

I always try to be different and play varied kind of characters.

My training varies so much. There's no such thing as a typical day.

Variety of mere nothings gives more pleasure than uniformity of something.

I can go from doing an electronic track to hip-hop to even folk songs. I think people like that variety in me.

I'm a variety girl when it comes to different genres.

I have a variety of styles. I don't stick to one particular style.

I listen to a variety of music. I like everything from old Arabic music to Portuguese fados.

It is very important for actors to maintain a variety in their body of work.

Instead of books, art, theatre, and music being consigned to specialized niches, we might have a criticism that better reflects the eclecticism of our time, a criticism that takes in various arts all at once.

What's lovely about what I do for a living is the vast chasm of variety that constantly just comes at you from all angles.

We may play in a contemporary rock vein, use standard bebop themes, and many other things besides.

I had three older sisters whose record collections I borrowed, so I was listening to The Velvet Underground as well as Bach and brass band music.