Quotes About Diversity

Seattle is the place where you can really find any kind of food, especially Japanese food.

One job I did turn down was 'How I Met Your Mother.' My character was 'creepy gay guy.' That was the character. The script said, 'Creepy gay guy gets in elevator every day with Jason Segel character and he's just being creepy.'

When I go into a room to write, it's like I'm not trying to say, 'I need to write a song that sounds like Eric Church or Jason Aldean.' I just try to get the best song that's in the room that day. Whatever style or sound that may be, I'm not afraid to attack it at that angle.

I love Drake and Future, and I gotta bump some Jay Z for that New York flavour too.

I grew up listening to Bob Marley, Jill Scott, Floetry, Nas, Jay-Z, Beyonce.

But it all came, and for me, hip-hop has done more for racial divide and racial sort of bringing together than anything in the last 30 years. Seeing people like Eminem sounding like somebody like Jay-Z and just the racial aspects of it all.

I think everybody has to kind of decide what the word 'jazz' means to them, and that's fine.

I want to expand jazz; I don't want to keep the audience limited. I want to reach people who have never come to a jazz concert before. One way to do that is by making records that have a lot of different kinds of music on them.

I don't know how much more what I've done is any more important than what Ella Fitzgerald did. Ella crossed those lines, as did George Benson before me. There've been lots of people who brought a pop audience to jazz because they were able to link the two and give people easy access to the world of jazz.

I'm this strange kind of fusion of jazz, pop, and R&B.

I like jazz, rock n' roll, some hip hop - I can't think of any music I don't like.

By its very nature, no one person can ever be the center of jazz.

I wouldn't really say I'm a jazz guy, which I'm not.

Most of the people that I learned and experienced jazz with have been with foreign white people, mostly from France. Excluding my family.

I listen to classical music very much. There's a lot of jazz that I don't enjoy listening to.

Jazz is a very accurate, curiously accurate accompaniment to 20th century America.

George Benson conquered many different genres, from pop ballads to R&B to jazz.

It's something that - jazz is one of the few things that you can go and listen to, I don't care where you're from, what you are, what background you come from - there's something there for you.

I listen to jazz, pop, rock, R&B. It really doesn't matter to me.

One thing I like about jazz is that it emphasized doing things differently from what other people were doing.

I think that people should learn about that. In most music, there's one way that you do something, and that's the only way. In jazz, it's a lot different.

I am famous because I am an African American jazz artist.

Film in the 20th century, it's the American art form, like jazz.

I am comfortable with anything I sing: jazz, gospel, classical. It doesn't matter. I can do it all.