Quotes About Diversity In Music

#1. I try not to think in terms of what poems or poets should do. Most of us appreciate a wide diversity in music, in cooking, in movies, but in our own medium, poetry, we often fail to make allowances for tastes and projects other than our own.

James Arthur

#2. I did not come into the world to prove anything. I came into the world to love everyone and everything.

Sri Chinmoy

#3. To the extent that this world surrenders its richness and diversity, it surrenders its poetry; to the extent that it relinquishes its capacity to surprise, it relinquishes its music; to the extent that it loses its ability to tolerate ridiculous and even dangerous exceptions, it loses its grace.

Tom Robbins

#4. Hip-hop is interesting, but American pop music doesn't have the kind of diversity that the UK does.

Casey Spooner

#5. Great is language ... it is the mightiest of the sciences,
It is the fulness and color and form and diversity of the earth ... and of men and women ... and of all qualities and processes;
It is greater than wealth ... it is greater than buildings or ships or religions or paintings or music.

Walt Whitman

#6. Because it's dance music, you can't really have a lot of changing in there. It's really not for me because there's too much repetition. I like more diversity.

Ikue Mori

#7. New Orleans is unlike any city in America. Its cultural diversity is woven into the food, the music, the architecture - even the local superstitions. It's a sensory experience on all levels and there's a story lurking around every corner.

Ruta Sepetys

#8. The diversity in the human family should be the cause of love and harmony, as it is in music where many different notes blend together in the making of a perfect chord.

Abdu'l- Baha

#9. Diversity is its most consistent characteristic ... The characteristics of freely improvised music are established only by the sonic-musical identity of the person or persons playing it.

Derek Bailey

#10. As the younger brother, I think you always have crushes on your older brother's girlfriends.

Liam Hemsworth

#11. Gods blast it, I was asking ye where you shite in the city, not where I should do it!

Kevin Hearne

#12. It disturbed me that the music industry had gone down the drain, even though people were listening to more music than ever and from a greater diversity of artists.

Daniel Ek

#13. The whole path of American music has been so much about the recognition of stylistic diversity, and the recognition of the importance of music which was from one of the vernacular traditions.

Michael Tilson Thomas

#14. In the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra we play such a diversity of music, with 10 arrangers in the band, we don't really worry about whether it's contemporary or not.

Wynton Marsalis

#15. I am certain that most composers today would consider today's music to be rich, not to say confusing, in its enormous diversity of styles, technical procedures, and systems of esthetics.

George Crumb

#16. Being exposed to the diversity of music I was as a kid made me the actor I am today. As an actor, you have to adapt and do so many different things.

Will Chase

#17. Nothing about multiculturalism antagonized Rachel. She liked all kinds of food, clothing, cultural customs, and music. The one thing that held her aloof was a fear of offending through ignorance.

Ausma Zehanat Khan

#18. Growing up, I never gave a thought to being a writer. All I ever wanted to be was a traveler and explorer. Science-fiction allowed me to go places that were otherwise inaccessible, which is why I started reading it. I was going to be a lawyer, but I got saved.

Alan Dean Foster

#19. My anxiety and pain during the Scud attacks on Israel, where some of my family lives, did not cancel out my fear and anguish for the victims of the bombardment of Iraq, where I also have relatives.

Ella Shohat

#20. When I perform, I like to immerse myself in the music, and I just try to get off on the diversity of music.

Krist Novoselic

#21. You develop relationships with people, and suddenly a family of actors and crew that you became so close to are now not around anymore. I'm not too sad about it because I got to move on to something else, but it's sad the way these things turn out.

Mark Pellegrino

#22. When you look at anyone's iPod or iPhone and their music collection on there, it's not the same 10 songs. People like diversity.

Jann Klose

#23. The garden was full of sorrow
Songbirds and unusual winds whistled a rhyme
Clouds caused to appear and cast down darkness
For this was the first day the sun didn't shine

John E. Wordslinger