Quotes About Eclecticism

I think that a band that cannot limit themselves to one genre and can kind of do a lot of different things.

Stylistically, we do so many different things.

I get attracted to different things. I have a different take on everything. I like to do different things. I don't like the regular stuff.

I listen to a lot of different things. I'll be listening to prog rock, then the next couple of hours - Indian.

I don't like to eat the same dish every day, so I read very different things.

I've probably done myself a disservice as a brand because the movies I've made. They've all been completely different.

I look for diversity in roles.

I like everything from hard-style techno to rock n' roll.

A world of houses where Californian, the Gothic or Moorish, dwarf Parthenons, Greek temples with lights and venetian blinds mixed with Renaissance villas.

I've always been a fan of or desired to or responded to variety. I like variety in life, so variety in work is a must.

One of the things I love about my job is the cornucopia of different professions in one.

In everything I am an intense, rather coarse dilettante.

I don't have one favourite band. I like everything.

I think it's a Blondie tradition that all of our albums sort of have a wide spread of styles.

I have a very wide spectrum of stuff that I grew up listening to.

I've always appreciated having a wide music taste, despite making what a lot of people would call electronic music.

I grew up with a wide range of music.

The human mind is not a dignified organ, and I do not see how we can exercise it sincerely except through eclecticism. And the only advice I would offer my fellow eclectics is: "Do not be proud of your inconsistency. It is a pity, it is a pity that we should be equipped like this. It is a pity that Man cannot be at the same time impressive and truthful.

Why can't we simply borrow what is useful to us from Buddhism, Hinduism, Taoism, especially Zen, as we borrow from Christianity, science, American Indian traditions and world literature in general, including philosophy, and let the rest go hang? Borrow what we need but rely principally upon our own senses, common sense and daily living experience.

We like to combine genres. Theo grew up listening to punk, and I love Christina Aguilera.

I enjoy everything. I actually do listen to everything. In high school, I listened to a lot of metal and punk rock.

Philosophy is at its most engaged when it is impure. What is being recovered from the Ancient Greek model is not some lost idea of philosophy's pure essence, but the idea that philosophy is mixed up with everything else.

I've tried to be flexible in my career by doing a little bit of everything and that's worked for me.

My whole life, I've always had one foot in the classical world and one foot in the rock, pop, and folk world.