Quotes About Diversity

I can play punk rock, and I love playing punk rock, but I was into every other style of music before I played punk rock.

How will the Tower of Babel be undone? How will we understand each other in Heaven? Will we all speak English or Dutch or Latin? No, we will speak music.

I don't judge too much as long as it's good. As long as it's good music and good artistry, I'm with it.

Every small town has its dramatic group, its barber-shop quartet, every home has music in one form or another.

That.s what Jazz music is all about.We started the Messengers because somebody had to mind the store for jazz.No America--no Jazz. It is the only culture that America has brought forth.

It's very strange how electronic music formatted itself and forgot that its roots are about the surprise, freedom, and the acceptance of every race, gender, and style of music into this big party.

I try not to discriminate against genres.

It seems stupid when people limit themselves to one kind of music. It tells me they're not using their ears.

The thing about Nashville is, it's not just country music...There's rock & roll, there's every kind of music. It's just a music town...There's so much fun stuff to get in to.

It doesn't matter the kind of music, it doesn't matter whether it's a cowboy hat or a yarmulke. I don't care if it's outer space or pop, the spirit is the same.

At home I'm just a guy who has interests that extend far beyond music.

While I was into many different types of music, and played with many different local groups, I really didn't have a band to call my own until Dire Straits was formed in 1977.

A well-rounded performer will listen to all kinds of music. I like classical, Middle Eastern, and rock a lot.

You've got to realize. In the western world, regardless of what color you are, what title the music is, it's all played by the same notes.

I don't care if a dude is purple with green breath as long as he can swing.

Certainly, jazz has become more of a niche, which is surprising, because it's our music. It's the national music of America.

I don't have very eclectic tastes in music.

There's a similarity between European and North African folk musics.

And I don't feel any form of music is beyond me in the sense of that I don't understand it or I don't have some love for some part of it.

At the heart, it is world music that I do. It's all connections. Ultimately, we're all connected.

If one takes all the styles in jazz harmonically from the earliest beginnings to the latest experiments, he still has a rather limited scope when compared to the rest of music in the world.

[Bebop is] Chinese music.

I think there's good music out there. I just think that radio stations don't play it.

I don't have a hand in a lot of my own beats. I like all types of music and all types of beats though.