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Quotes About Diversity

Punishing individual immigrants who are deeply embedded in American communities is not the mandate Trump was given when he was elected.
~ Luis Gutierrez
In my high school the Mexican cowboys, the chilangos and rancheros, didn't like the punk rockers.
~ Cedric Bixler-Zavala
Whether you like punk, grunge, or early rock and roll, there's probably something in there you've been living with your whole life and you didn't even know it was jazz.
~ Gregory Porter
Too much emphasis is put on American roots music when people try and place me. You know, I grew up listening to punk.
~ Will Oldham
I couldn't imagine a list of 10 records that didn't contain a punk record - that didn't contain a Clash record.
~ Nick Hornby
I cooked, which was pretty un-Australian. And I didn't really like Australian music... I preferred the New Romantics and punk and stuff like that.
~ John Torode
I was a fan of heavy music - first metal, then punk, then hip hop.
~ Tom Morello
I was the only punk rocker at my high school. And there were at least a handful of black kids who liked hip-hop. Both were kind of the new music of the day, and it was lonely being the only punk.
~ Rick Rubin
I want people to focus on listening, not the image. And I want to play to everyone: rednecks, dubstep kids, punk rockers, and people who like as-real-as-it-gets country music.
~ Sturgill Simpson
I grew up listening to everything. I was in rock n' roll bands and punk bands, and I loved bluegrass and country music, too. Then, when I moved to Nashville, I put out a very traditional country record because that's just what you do. I had a bunch of very traditional country songs. Next thing you know, you're a country singer.
~ Sturgill Simpson
Bad Brains is one of my all-time favorite punk bands.
~ Ty Dolla Sign
I listen to a lot of Nashville local music, which, for the most part, is punk and grunge music but also alt-country stuff down here.
~ Soccer Mommy
Hip-hop influences my talent, but I think that punk and everything else I listened to growing up was who my idols were.
~ Machine Gun Kelly
Everyone knows queers and women invented punk.
~ Hunx
I can't think of another artist who has a fan base as diverse, in that the ladies in their 70s at the 4-H club have the same collection of Johnny Cash records as the punk on the street in Amsterdam.
~ John Carter Cash
I don't really have a specific style, it changes every day depending on who I am with, or the place I am near. In London, it's a bit more punk.
~ Lady Amelia Windsor
I was always so many different things, all at once: a little hood, a little punk, a little grunge, a little glam, a little gay. I have a whole bunch of flavours.
~ Princess Nokia
I've done bit parts on shows where I've been the fat girl or the punk rocker.
~ Karen Kilgariff
We like to combine genres. Theo grew up listening to punk, and I love Christina Aguilera.
~ Sasha Spielberg
When we began Daft Punk, by the albums we made, by the interviews we did and by every opportunity we had we tried to break all the boundaries between musical genres.
~ Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo
What's really cool about 'This is Me' is that our friends loved the song. Older punk rock fans don't know 'The Greatest Showman,' haven't seen the movie. And they hear that song and they're like, 'This just sounds like an awesome New Found Glory song. This is a really good song.'
~ Chad Gilbert
When I was younger, I went through a lot of different phases. One day I'd be punk rock, and the next I would be tomboyish, and then I would be really girly. I was so weird. My two best friends and I were just crazy and goofy!
~ Ashley Benson
It's all magic to me. Country to punk rock, all of it. Chopin to Kurt Cobain. But it always all comes back to punk for me, because that was the last time, punk rock or grunge rock, was the last time that passion ruled the airwaves.
~ James Marsters
I enjoy everything. I actually do listen to everything. In high school, I listened to a lot of metal and punk rock.
~ Tim Schafer