Quotes About Eclecticism

I wear everything from hip-hop baggy pants to beautiful Armani dresses. I also like to mix vintage clothing with designer pieces.

Despite being a classical musician, I keep poking my nose in other genres of music.

I enjoy all forms of music - pop, classical and opera.

I'm aware that people enjoy creating categories that make it easier to digest pop culture or the media or entertainment or whatever. But I really have too much to do to fit into any easy category.

Country music has room for a little bit of everything.

I listen to everything from The Cure and The Clash to Prince and George Clinton.

I like to have a person's knowledge comprehend more than one class of topics, one row of shelves. I like a person who likes to see a fine barn as well as a good tragedy.

People think I write weird, but there are people at Death Equinox that make me look like Danielle Steele.

He helped make Living Things even more crazy than I wanted it to be. He added old-fashioned piano and classical folk music - that weird otherworldly vibe - all these elements got onto the record.

I can watch anything from 1970s West Coast rock to 1990s electro-funk - I don't care.

The only way I work as a designer is to consciously avoid specialisation.

Three-6 Mafia, we were always doing different kinds of things, and we like rock music, we like whatever - not saying they was rock, but they had a little rock-n-roll with some of their music, a little rock with it.

I've always liked a lot of different kinds of music.

There's no common taste in this world.

I'm a bit suspicious of people who are narrow in their musical tastes.

My musical tastes - I'm always searching for new things. I know a lot of people say they listen to everything, but I kind of do.

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

I appreciate simplicity, true beauty that lasts over time, and a little wit and eclecticism that make life more fun.

People constantly describe me as a formalist or even a minimalist, but I'm not really bothered with the rules of painting or the history of painting. My approach is that everything is mine. I take what I can use from wherever, and then I forget where I've taken it from. But there is no point me making anything that looks like anyone else's.

I take it to be a principle rule of life, not to be too much addicted to any one thing.

I like to consider myself an all-rounder, and I'm not trying to be King of the Scene or anything. I'd like to do everything, from writing film scores to producing pop albums.

I like to be in different roles.

I enjoy performing different roles. I never want to get stuck with one character.

I've always been interested in many different things.