Jade Bird Quotes

I just like music all the way around the board. I can't stick to one thing - I've got to move around.

I like so many different kinds of music that I've never allowed myself the limitations of one particular range.

I learned about embracing all different genres as opposed to just getting attached to one.

I feel most comfortable keeping versatile when it comes to music genres.

The thing about dating someone who listens to a totally different genre than you is they can help you find things to appreciate in that genre.

I love all forms of music. I even like music I dislike, because the music you dislike is like going to a strange country, and it forces you to rethink everything and to appreciate its particular joys.

I'm a mutt as far as music is concerned because I listen to everything.

I have really diverse tastes, which can be problematic sometimes, but it's good because it means I'm always listening to as much music as possible. I love listening to music, whatever genre it is.

Most people my age, their musical life ended in the '80s. They stick with what they know. But my tastes are much broader. And I don't want to stop learning.

I got into hip-hop, but I still had appreciation for all types of music, so I was trained to have an open mind and to always go with the flow.

I really want to explore every genre that I can.

We all listen to a lot of eclectic things.

It's important to me to not stay too confined to any specific sonic space. There is something really magical about straight folk music - it's not that I don't like it, it's just that I like so much music, I hear so many different things, and I want to try more. I don't want to be confined.

We try not to think that our listeners are one-track-minded people with the music they listen to.

I don't have one favourite band. I like everything.

You must surrender whatever preconceptions you have about music if you're really interested in it.

When I came across something I liked, I wanted to find out as much as I could about it. This was as true of hearing Hoagy Carmichael for the first time as it was later when I first heard Boulez.

Where my tastes in music are concerned, I'm a real maximalist.

Music is there for us to explore. To intentionally limit yourself to one, two, or three genres is limitation at its worst. Music is huge; it's a gigantic history lesson, and if you are true music fan or a musician, you should explore it. It's all right there in front of us.

If someone is a straight jazzhead, or a straight metalhead, or straight classical, they have a very narrow range of what they allow into their lives. But the people who listen to what we put out into the world have to be open-minded. Because we're so pluralist.

We all had a desire and appreciation for such a wide range of music.

My father loved all different types of music. He wasn't a snob. He wasn't a purist.

I have very diverse tastes in music, and I don't, like, make distinctions between what I can't and can't listen to. In fact, I could never understand why anybody would do that in the first place. My attitude is, 'I can't make music if I don't like music.'

But I'm also a music lover, and I'll always try a lot of different things.

I mostly listen to things that are so different because there's something so intriguing about trying to understand where someone is coming from.