Quotes About Diversity

Rap bores me, and all the glamour rock groups like Bon Jovi just amuse me. They obviously have a place, but they all sound like they use the same guitar player to me.

I want to be the biggest thing that's out because I'm different from everybody. I don't sound like nobody.

Every orchestra has its own sound.

I don't listen to the contemporary pop artists. They all sound alike, anyway.

Use she, he, it, one, they. You could call me mow mow, and I honestly don't care. A pronoun is just a sound. All I'm listening for in that sound is positivity.

I'm not sure how to say this without making it sound corny, but I honestly feel this is the way to run a business. Our work force needs to mirror these communities, and we've got to get aggressive in recruiting and promoting minorities.

It may sound cliched, but it just shows that when you don't let people put you in a box then anything can happen.

Of course, Paul McCartney's sound is different from mine, but it's the way you hear things, really.

I'm three quarters Scottish, but I sound English. I don't really see British as a race.

What I try to do with the accent of any character I play is not necessarily to do something that's generic - an Indian accent and that's how it sounds, for example. I think the accent needs to sound authentic on this person.

That's why so much of the music today sounds so much alike, because there's no in-between. So it's kind of nice to still turn some buttons every now and then.

I don't have one song that sounds like another one in my entire catalog.

I just really like fun, cool, interesting, quirky girls. And sometimes you find that in 6'2 model bodies and sometimes they're short and brunette. All shapes and sizes - it's really about the personality. That sounds cliche, but it's so freaking true!

The thing that's good about Hip Hop is that it has experimented with a lot of different sounds and music.

If you put four different people on a podium conducting the same downbeat, you get four different sounds. It's a little mysterious and fascinating. There's so much you can do with motions and body movements besides giving accurate beats.

I love trying new things and experimenting with instruments and sounds.

Ang Lee and 'Hulk,' for instance - a movie about a guy with different-colored skin and a lot of repressed rage? Sounds like the perfect film for an Asian, to me!

I remember really bonding with the first generation kids, the Chinese Canadian kids, and in high school bonding with the Latin kids and the East Indian kids. It was very interesting because it made me open to lots of musical sounds.

It's all quotes, anyway, and it all sounds the same to me.

Now I listen to all kinds of music except rap, which all sounds the same to me.

Maybe I just never learned my harmony part, because what everybody says sounds odd to them sounds perfectly natural to me.

Just trying to be different - when I hear something - I don't like to go trampling on other people's sounds.

It doesn't really matter to me what the rest of country is doing. I'm not caught up in trying to make a record that sounds like everybody else. That, to me, is a record label's absolute biggest downfall.

When I was 13, listening to Choice FM, I would listen to a lot of R&B from America, and whenever a British person tried to do it, it didn't really work, they just sounded like they were trying to copy that whole style. Now the music sounds British, something real rather than an imitation.