Quotes About Diversity

Music is colorless. It's for everybody, it's for the world, it's for everybody to enjoy.

It's important to keep indie record stores alive because their unique environments introduce music lovers to things in a very personal way.

the grace is being able to like rock music, symphony music, jazz … anything that contains the original energy of joy.

Every now and again, the alternative culture is cherished by the mainstream for what it is, rather than how it should be, like the mainstream popular music.

Music has always been transnational; people pick up whatever interests them, and certainly a lot of classical music has absorbed influences from all over the world.

I want to investigate different cultures, to see how their identities and values affect their music. It's one way I can get to know our world, at least to a certain depth.

The one thing about music is that there are no rules.

There's no field of music which doesn't have good ideas.

What is life but a Spectrum and what is music but life itself.

I just know that I'm a fan of all different kinds of genres. You're supposed to be free doing music, and that's how I feel.

Generally I try to read anything but indie rock journalism or anything about music at all, especially in the summer.

You make music to move people and you don't get to pick who you move. You just don't. It's exclusionary and elitist and I just never felt that way about music, of all things. The great unifier.

Holland is to dance music what Nashville is to country.

There's only so much you can do with a male voice in dance music.

I love great music - it has no color, it has no boundaries.

TVXQ has always chased after different music styles, and their members all have very strong talents.

All these ways we classify things as R&B and hip-hop and rock... It's bullshit. It's all music. If you put yourself in that box, then you won't be able to hear that it's all music at its soul.

I like writing different types of music. I don't like being stuck into one thing.

I've always loved black culture; I don't know any other way to put it. Since I was a kid I loved music and early jazz, Sly and the Family Stone.

I don't worry too much about the fundamentalist principles that are in almost any discussion about Jazz.

I think there needs to be people that are doing something different in music. There's a need for that as much as there's a need for a scene.

Music itself was color-blind but the media and the radio stations segregate it based on their perceptions of the artists.

I write the music I like. If other people like it, fine, they can go buy the albums. And if they don't like it, there's always Michael Jackson for them to listen to.

Thankfully I have a fan base that wants to see me, so I really enjoy creating music that is different.