Quotes About Diversity

There's certain things in life that I love. One is architecture. And music, culture, food, people. New Orleans has all of that.

Good music is good music, regardless of where it comes from. I think that's a really important thing to carry with you.

I always think of music as interior decoration. So, if you have all kinds of music, you are fully decorated!

Those who want to know what sound goes into my music should come to NY and open their ears.

I wanna show that gospel, country, blues, rhythm and blues, jazz, rock 'n' roll are all just really one thing. Those are the American music and that is the American culture.

I think of music as a menu. I can't eat the same thing every day.

If you want to make beautiful music, you must play the black and the white notes together.

House Music isn't black or white. It just is. It feels good & it feels right.

I believe music is a place everyone of us can go to. I don't care who you are, where you were born, what you do with your life. Everyone can come here in music and be equal.

Through my music teaching and my not absolutely irregular attendance at church, I became acquainted with the best class of colored people in Jacksonville.

If you think of music as a universal language, it still has some very powerful dialects.

I want kids of this generation to see that everything is cool, that there's some kind of unity in hip-hop. We all found something that's really important to us, and music is all we've really got.

Me and Kendrick [Lamar] have different types of music. He from a different coast; we ain't in the same lane.

The way to write American music is simple. All you have to do is be an American and then write any kind of music you wish.

I think Depeche Mode music somehow appeals to the oddball, to the person who is looking for something a little bit different.

Are we not formed, as notes of music are, For one another, though dissimilar?

Rap has been a path between cultures in the best tradition of popular music.

I make a lot of music for different people. My audience is varied so I use different tempos for different music in order to satisfy my many fans.

To most white people, jazz means black and jazz means dirt, and that's not what I play. I play black classical music.

I think the industry is oblivious to the fact that most people listen to all kinds of stuff. I personally don't know of anyone who listens to only one genre of music. It's vanity because no one does.

There is a lot of music out there that you can play side by side and you can't hear the personality - that has a timeline on it, for sure.

Freedom of Speech is Freedom of Music.

When I'd tell people I like country music they'd get this look on their faces. People were kind of ashamed of country.

Hip Hop was supposed to be this new thing that had no boundaries and was so different to everyday music. As long as it has soul to it, hip hop can live on.