Quotes About Eclecticism

I love to mix it up. I love to keep doing different things.

I love things that are very broad. I love alternative, rock, hip hop, rap, and I'll go to classical or jazz.

I love variety in my life.

I like stuff like Joy Division and Verdi, and then some naff stuff.

My main goal was to have something for everyone and not just one sound.

I have a lot of different influences. Everything from Maroon 5, Gwen Stefani, The Clash, Kanye West - just a lot of different artists.

I have always enjoyed different kinds of music.

I'm a character actor so I've jumped around to all kinds of things.

I listen to a lot of different kinds of music.

I sing a mixture of everything from opera, folk music, Broadway. It's a mix of things.

What appalled Schiller about these libraries was that they featured nothing off the beaten track: no tattered paperbacks; no evidence of distinctive personal interests; no tokens of long intellectual detours passionately explored.

Use only that which works, and take it from any place you can find it.

If you looked at my iPod, you would get a trip out of all the different music, from the real heavy metal to bluegrass to classical.

Variety is the spice of life. We all want surprises.

I can't just have one painting - I need to cover the wall in paintings. It's the same with my music. I want to mix everything together to create more.

Style is something you can use, and you can be like a magpie, just taking what you want. The idea of the rigid style seemed to me then something you needn't concern yourself with, it would trap you.

I don't wanna make hood music, I don't wanna make street music, I want to make world music, global music, international music.

I'm not loyal to one genre. I want to mix it up.

I kind of want to know a little bit about everything.

I like too many different kinds of movies to only want to do one kind.

I was brought up on listening to 78 rpm records from crooners to opera singers to solo piano players.

I like all kinds of music artists like Akon. I even listen to Lady Gaga.

I'm a music fan first and foremost. I can find the beauty in Jellyfish and U2 just as much as Opeth and Lamb of God, just as much as I can with Rush and Yes.

'Epicloud' is the first record that I felt confident enough to include all those things on one record, so it goes between melodic hard rock to schizophrenic heavy metal to country to really ambient stuff, and it's all in one place.