Anthony Braxton Quotes

If you shut the door to all errors, truth will be shut out.

I'm really open to everything.

We're not all supposed to think alike.

Like, honest to God, I don't expect people to be into what I'm into.

Be curious, not judgmental.

So many men, so many opinions: to each his own way.

I'm very curious. I feel more comfortable surrounded by people not like me.

The more you are different, the more interesting. The more you are not like me, the more I want to get to know more about you.

I try not to stick to any one thing, you know. That's always been important to me.

I've learned it's important to never lock yourself down into one thing - you need to remain fluid and open to all possibilities.

I wouldn't call myself a commitment-phobe, but someone who really likes to try everything to the point of wanting to do short-term projects, just to give myself the opportunity to go to more places and try more things.

Accept others for their differences, what makes them different. That's what makes the world the world.

I'm always looking for something new to do.

The recipe to our success is that you have a bunch of different guys who listen to a lot of different music.

As long as you have balance, you can experience all of the things going on in the world and reach out and meet people and try new things, and you shouldn't be judged for it.

Our interests are pretty boundless, as is our appetite for new creative experiences.

I'm attracted to everything, and that's what keeps my mind alive always.

I like to take walks and getting out and seeing things. These experiences are so irreplaceable and give you a whole different perspective on the greater context that you're in. If I didn't try to take advantage of that, I'd be missing out on a lot of really interesting things.

Diversity is not a skin thing, necessarily. Diversity is you have people around the table who have different backgrounds and different experiences and think differently.

I always love trying new and different things.

I don't close the door to anything.

I'm very into familiar things, popular things. I'm into things that no one seems to know about or be into. I'm trying to draw a line between those two things and make it clear... that it all makes sense to me. That it's not disparate. That it's all one thing inside me.

I keep an open mind.

I like to try everything, taste everything.

Your movie becomes much more narrow-minded when you have like-minded department heads. Whereas if you can surround yourself with people who have been a mother before, been a grandmother before, you get a much broader and wide-reaching swath of human emotions.