Quotes About Integration

Through my music teaching and my not absolutely irregular attendance at church, I became acquainted with the best class of colored people in Jacksonville.

If Apple's a technology company in the music industry, why can't somebody in the music industry make technology?

The director's job should give you a sense of music without drawing attention to itself.

All of music is connected, but a lot of people don't see it that way

[Bebop is] Chinese music.

Music is indivisible. The dualism of feeling and thinking must be resolved to a state of unity in which one thinks with the heart and feels with the brain.

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.

There are two sides of me, the bachata/tropical Latin side and the English pop as well. They're both equally important, so I'll always make sure to keep both roots in my music.

When we separate music from life we get is art.

I was really interested in how a health care center could also be a center for the arts and for music, and for bringing together sort of the isolated elements of the community.

Fusion has been my nemesis.

Even when I take the path to go be a CEO for a month, or a CEO for a day- music is still there. It's an extremely important part of what I am.

Pagers are my life--I try to get them in to our music as much as possible.

Dance, like music, knows no geographical boundaries, no linguistic barriers and no racial divisions. All walls crumble where art is concerned. It is a great unifying and integrating force.

I'm half Jewish, I'm half black, I look in-between. I dress funny. I play all these different styles of music on one record. It's like, What is he doing?

Yeah, I can't separate the art from the music and the music from the art. I think that stems from going to school for film first, and kind of stumbling onto music as my career.

Videos have to go hand in hand with your music, so that's why, ultimately, they should be created by the artist. And if they're not, it doesn't really add up to me.

I see myself in pop culture. I listen to pop music, I do pop things, and I'm also a scientist.

Music is my life. It's inseparable from anything else that I do.

A building should appear to grow easily from its site and be shaped to harmonize with its surroundings if Nature is manifest there.

I don't believe architecture has to speak too much. It should remain silent and let nature in the guise of sunlight and wind

Form must have a content, and that content must be linked with nature.

In the end, the question is not, how do we use nature to serve our interests? It's how can we use humans to serve nature's interest?'

Man is not above nature, but in nature.