Quotes About Diversity

I feel like there is a lot of homophobia and misogyny in the music business, and I feel like I've gotten to a place where I've broken down a lot of those doors.

In the music business, we all do different things, but we sit there and admire other people who can write a song differently or sing differently. It's not so competitive.

One of the good things about globalization is it has created a single international music community, and I feel very much part of it.

I want to continue to constantly put out great music, expand further and further with the live show and music that is attracting music fans from all over the place, not only for ravers or electronic heads.

I'm just glad that there's some diversity in the music industry with women so people know that you can be literally anything and still be able to make it.

I'm proud of my roots. There are not many Asians in the music industry so it's important for me to tell people where I'm from.

I know about homophobia in the music industry - not just in hip-hop. Obviously, we're dealing with homophobia in hip-hop; we're dealing with homophobia in the black community.

The music industry wants safe rock stars, people who are totally homogenised.

There's entrenched homophobia behind the scenes at all levels of the music industry.

Being a Malayali, I had to learn Punjabi and Haryanvi to be able to jump into the music scene.

The Indian music scene is completely dominated by Bollywood music. We need to create space for indi-pop music.

Atlanta is a huge part of the music scene and a large part of Hollywood now.

'My Country, My Music' is about bringing music in languages like Tamil, Telegu, Kannada, Malyalam, and Marathi together. It's about bringing musical genres together, different scenarios in which music is displayed in our country in one show.

What is jazz? It, It's almost like asking, What is French? Jazz is a musical language. It's a musical dialect that actually embodies the spirit of America.

I get a different kind of lyric from someone else that might make me go in a different musical direction.

In every interview I've got to explain something about being white but still being into hip hop. It's gone way beyond the musical aspect of the business. And I'm as critical about music as everybody else is.

Soul has no musical geographical or racial boundaries.

So what I'm trying to say is from a musical aspect for anybody to say that whatever they're doing in Florida is not Hip Hop or whatever they're doing in LA is not Hip Hop, who are these people to say that?

As a movie-goer, I really like to watch all different kinds of movies and, as an actor, I always feel like I could do pretty much anything but a musical.

My dream artists to collaborate with are probably Cee Lo Green and Imogen Heap. They're completely out of my genre but they're both musical geniuses.

I went through my adolescence having this revelatory experience - I can have any music I want, and I can get it immediately. For me and for a lot of people I know, there's this musical eclecticism that happened.

I always wanted to make an album, but I knew that I didn't want it to be a musical theater album. It's not that I don't love them - I own every musical theater album ever made - but it just didn't seem right for me.

When you are in the musical theater and you are someone who looks like me, you are constantly bending yourself, bending your voice to fit the job they've given you.

I grew up playing a lot of sports and doing musical theater.