Quotes About Diversity

I like African music, and I'm a huge Ravi Shankar fan.

I always have my own music on my iPod, especially songs that I am going to record. Besides that, I have lots of others ranging from Chris Brown to Beyonce', Michael Jackson, Rascal Flatts and Adele.

I heard someone say that all black people got rhythm. Bullshit.

I play American and World music, Texas style.

Being a classical musician, you're doing many things anyway. One day you're doing Bach concerto and the next you're doing some avant-garde thing. It's just another hat that I'm allowed to wear.

I would like to be known as an artist. Whether that be music, acting, sketching, cooking, whatever. Im interested in all of those things.

I think America concedes that true American music has sprung from the Negro.

Back in those days, all us skinny white British kids were trying to look cool and sound black. And there was Hendrix, the ultimate in black cool. Everything he did was natural and perfect.

I was very drawn to music of all types, from Beethoven to Jimi Hendrix. There were musicians and composers who obviously were expressing a vision that was beyond the mundane.

I love everything from country to alternative to Blink-182 and 90s music to Dave Matthews.

My music is not really about one ideology. It's not about one truth.

You see all races in music, and in dance and theatre, so why can't we see it in fashion?

I have observed, too, that the people of the many countries that I have visited are showing an ever increasing interest in the classical and traditional music of their own cultures.

I realize that I will never fully understand the millions of bizarre ways that music brings people together.

My music was made with everyone in mind with no prejudice towards anyone.

Saying you liked all music meant that you didn't love any.

Salsa, classic rock, soul music, jazz... all of that was a part of my education in making hip-hop music.

I was into all kinds of music as a teen - country music, because my dad was in a band that played country, and whatever my sister and brother were into.

I love music, and a lot of it. Jazz is probably on the top with guys like Miles Davis. But I even enjoy music from the '60s and '70s.

I don't listen to Bollywood music much. But yes I listen to Indian music quite often and other non- film music.

All music is based on country music. And that's why so many different kinds of people relate to it. There are more country music fans in New Jersey than there are down South.

I love many kinds of music: world music, jazz, classical, pop.

People seem to think that folk music is people with acoustic guitars. Or punk music is people with mohawks, leather jackets.

Most of the reggae awareness is still among music industry people and people who are already into all types of music.