Quotes About Inclusivity

Jazz is a democratic musical form. We take our respective instruments & collectively create a thing of beauty.

Good music is good music, regardless of where it comes from. I think that's a really important thing to carry with you.

I wanna show that gospel, country, blues, rhythm and blues, jazz, rock 'n' roll are all just really one thing. Those are the American music and that is the American culture.

House Music isn't black or white. It just is. It feels good & it feels right.

I believe music is a place everyone of us can go to. I don't care who you are, where you were born, what you do with your life. Everyone can come here in music and be equal.

Kinship doesn't come from skin color. It's in your soul and your mind.

The only lifestyle I'm promoting is the lifestyle of love and friendship. The lifestyle of music, and joy, and fashion. So whoever wants to come and get part of that lifestyle, we accept anybody.

It's very strange how electronic music formatted itself and forgot that its roots are about the surprise, freedom, and the acceptance of every race, gender, and style of music into this big party.

I try not to discriminate against genres.

Music is universal too. Even deaf people like to dance, love rhythm, and can kind of pick it up.

It doesn't matter the kind of music, it doesn't matter whether it's a cowboy hat or a yarmulke. I don't care if it's outer space or pop, the spirit is the same.

You've got to realize. In the western world, regardless of what color you are, what title the music is, it's all played by the same notes.

I don't care if a dude is purple with green breath as long as he can swing.

I've worked with some great orchestras and amazing classical musicians, but I don't like the conceptualization of classical music as an elitist form of art.

And I don't feel any form of music is beyond me in the sense of that I don't understand it or I don't have some love for some part of it.

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.

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

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.

Music has no race. It appeals to everybody.

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.

I love all types of music myself.

The great thing about the arts, and especially popular music, is that it really does cut across genres and races and classes.

I'm a fan of music from all over the world.

I also like Western classical music and jazz.