Quotes About Eclecticism

Don't be afraid to mix things up by pairing a military-style jacket with a velvet skirt, vintage with modern, off-the-rack with couture, formal with casual.

While I was writing the songs for 'Fuzz Universe,' I was immersing myself in Bulgarian Female Choir music, Baroque lute and violin pieces, Johnny Cash songs about trains, cows, mules, and mining coal, the Bee Gees, and Ronnie James Dio.

With a Vietnamese massage parlor to its left and a lawn mower repair shop to its right

My father had a varied ear, from Hank Williams to Ravel.

My father loved all different types of music. He wasn't a snob. He wasn't a purist.

I have an eclectic taste in stuff whether it be movies or music or books or food or anything. Variety is interesting.

I have tried to know absolutely nothing about a great many things, and I have succeeded fairly well.

Do some interesting things that you have never done before! Add more colours to your life; enrich your existence with every kind of oddities!

There must be every kind of books in your library. The most beautiful gardens are those with many different flowers, with all kinds of herbs and weeds!

If we all went out with people our type we'd be bored out of our brains

Yo no tengo una personalidad; yo soy un cocktail, un conglomerado, una manifestación de personalidades.

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.