Quotes About Eclecticism

I really don't think I have a genre, honestly, 'cause I make such different music even though it is rap.

One day I'll make a rap song, the next day I'll make a pop song, the next day I'll make a rock song, the next day I'll make R&B. I don't have a pattern.

I'm an artist, not a rapper... so my musical genres and library is way beyond the normal rapper.

My earliest memories of music are probably my dad listening to a bunch of outlaw country, but also old R&B and Ray Charles, Aretha Franklin. But, you know, I had rock phases and liked more modern R&B acts. I've always listened to all kinds of music, and I like all kinds of music.

I realise that I'm a bit of a dabbler but it's nice to do stuff that's different.

I like almost everything, even country twang, disco, blue grass and accordions.

I don't think I'm mainstream. I think what I am is lots and lots of different cults. And when you get lots and lots of small groups who like you a lot, they add up to a big group without ever actually becoming mainstream.

Look at me! I can go from 'Donny and Marie' to Sam Peckinpah to Radio City Music Hall in one week.

I like a bit of mongrel myself, whether it's a man or a dog.

I like eclecticism. To feel comfortable and not overdressed. I still like thrift store shopping, and I don't like to put a lot of effort into what I'm going to wear.

I have done all kinds of roles - comedy, action, romance, and thrillers. Just name the genre, and I've done it.

If you do something that's not pigeonholed, it gets thrown into the 'We don't know what this is' bin, and so let's not talk about it so much.

I love James Taylor and Carole King, Joni Mitchell - this is, like, early '70s stuff. I love the stuff from the '40s. I love that tight harmony that the studio singers in the '50s would sing. I love Patsy Cline. Yeah, I'm all over the place.

Life is more than one genre'.

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

If I opened a record store, it wouldn't be all punk rock and esoterica.

My art is based on impurity. You have to mix things from different refined cultures to get something raw, to make it go again.

Most stabilizing part of my career is that I have done all genres. I hate classification.

And I do lots of different jobs. So I have a hundred different hats on. I could be going from 'Long Lost Family' one day, to 'The Masked Singer' the next, to a Garnier job, to something else.

You know, you try to be diverse, and try to have fun and round things out.

I'm an inveterate fox and not a hedgehog, so I always think you should try everything.

My audience here in America is so eclectic. It's a real mix of people, which is great. Like what I was doing with Culture Club - world music, multiculturalism - not defining everything in terms of sexuality or color. It was about everyone coming together and being part of something.

We've gone further on this album, where we have a Big Band song, kind of a Sinatra-type song; we have a couple songs that have electronic music on them. We've got a couple rock songs, maybe a little heavier than what we've done. So the title 'Jekyll & Hyde' really covers the breadth of the record.

I never put myself in a box. I like to have various different types of songs and different genres and situational songs. No matter is going on, I have something for that time or era.