David Cage Quotes

I don't believe in lobbying only progressives and liberal members of Congress. I don't believe in doing interviews only with those who share my views. I want to reach a wider audience.

I hope that I do make music that can speak to anyone. I don't just want to play for a queer crowd.

I don't want to be an elitist designer. It's no fun just catering for a small group of people. It's against my principles.

I listen. I meet with everybody, I don't care what their political persuasion is - whether it be a labor union or small-business folks or individuals who have problems. But I meet with everybody and listen.

You should be a person inside the world with knowledge of your terrain. And if you lock yourself into the 2,000-by-3,000-square-mile, lower-48 box of the United States, you're going to be frustrated by its limitations. You gotta think outside the box.

Art is nothing if you don't reach every segment of the people.

Motown was about music for all people - white and black, blue and green, cops and the robbers. I was reluctant to have our music alienate anyone.

I didn't go out shooting for anybody in particular because I shot for everybody unparticular. I make records for Muslims, Christians, rock 'n roll kids, skateboard kids.

Films should be for everybody.

If it's accessible by hundreds of millions of people, then it's as mainstream as it gets.

The kind of audience I'm speaking to is a very wide range of people.

I want to write music that's going to appeal to everyone.

That's what makes a good show. It doesn't target one group. It tells a story everyone gets.

We wanted to be as expansive as possible to make sure we didn't preclude some good ideas.

You can learn a lot from people who view the world differently than you do.

If we're going to reach a broader audience, we have to stop thinking about that audience strictly in terms of teenage boys or even teenage girls. We need to think about things that are relevant to normal humans and not just the geeks we used to be.

Our thoughts and imagination are the only real limits to our possibilities.

In the mid-nineties, diversity in the fashion/beauty business was hard to come by.

I can have a song with Ariana Grande that is going to be the song for all the kids and the teen girls, and then another song that could be for a different group of people who all love the song. I'm with whoever. Whatever type of people want to love the music and whatever they love about the music is fine with me.

Americans are the pick of the more adventurous and people of all races.

I know of no group or class that we do not reach—and we please none.

Africaness is not something that limits you to a corner of humanity…it expands you universally

It's all about communication and a dialogue between individuals - get rid of the labels, get rid of the shame, get rid of the stigmas and just be your most authentic self.

Love is love, and a lot of times, people might be in the situation they're in because they put barriers up. Like, some people only want to date a model or an actor or an athlete. You're only limiting yourself. Open up to what's out there because God made us all.

I am more open than other coaches with all of my players.