Quotes About Diversity

I remember singing around the house to records that were playing. All kinds of music. And the great James Cleveland was often in our house, and I grew up with his sound as well.

I was the first person in my family born in the United States. My mom is from Croatia, and my dad is from Iran. They met at music school in Belgium. I grew up as a pianist.

In Europe, they like everything you do. The mistakes and everything. That's a little bit too much.

The problem is the following, black music is increasing encumbered by white elements, often pleasant but always superfluous, easily and advantageously replaced with black elements.

People thought me a bit strange at first; a blond haired, blue-eyed Norwegian who sang Mexican folk songs, but I used it to my advantage and got a job. And so the music became my ticket to education.

I've seen and learned enough to keep my music fresh and spread out.

Music is a big part of my life. I listen to different genres, and I choose the music that will inspire the next part of my story.

Before I settled on music, I wanted to be an archaeologist, an astronaut, all sorts of really diverse things.

When I got started in New York, if you were different from Miles & Dizzy it was very difficult.

What really swings is the music of the United States, Cuba, the Caribbean and vicinity, and, of course, Brazil. The rest is all waltzes.

It was unlikely that anyone had ever heard a black person sing country music.

I really like all music, but mostly Country, older R&B, and the good classic rock.

Our basic audience begins with creaking elderly types of twenty-three and above.

That's for non-musicians to say: "I only listen to this or that type of music." I think musicians love all music, or at least that's my case.

You learn so much about music from all the people you surround yourself with - good, bad and indifferent. It's extremely hard to be specific.

Music is the harmonization of opposites; the conciliation of warring elements

Fight the tendency to become complacent and do one kind of music - that is the death of a musician.

Music has no race. It appeals to everybody.

When the band begins to get a name for themselves, and the writers get assigned to bands, they'll hit somebody who just doesn't like that kind of music, or they love hip hop but hate guitar rock.

Listen to music you don't even like and see why you don't like it.

And looking at today's music scene, I think it's cool that there are a lot of consumers and fans not limited by what radio and the record companies tell them to buy.

Why should be elite, music? Excuse me. Music must be for everybody.

Rhythm and blues used to be called race music. ... This music was going on for years, but nobody paid any attention to it.

You get below the Mason-Dixon line and you have some of the best music, culture, the two races, the literature, and it's so rich.