Theresa Rebeck Quotes

The whole aspect of cinema and film festivals should be a moment to come together and celebrate art and humanity. It would be a shame if there was such a divide.

Every musician tries to blend in some reggae. It's the only music that brings all people together, different races, different religions.

America is grappling with cultural diversity, and I just want to put a show on that represents the world in which I live.

'Lollipop Opera' is the backdrop to Finsbury Park. A place that is very thriving, interracial and lot of music stores, Greek, Turkish, all sorts of immigrant music. It's utter Englishness. It blends the Jamaicans, the Irish. It's like what Jim Reeves did with American country music.

In or orchestra we have many nationalities, types, and temperaments.

This is a country where Jews and Arabs speak without fear. Where people come from different cultures the world over. Where everyone becomes Brazilian rapidly.

In Florida, we're the best melting pot in the world. We love everybody coming to our state.

This country is not built on one culture alone. We all make up this industry.

I want to create a market where people from all walks of life can encounter each other in an atmosphere of beautiful chaos, the coming together of kindred souls.

This melting pot of experiences, interests, educations, backgrounds, and cultures makes the U.S. truly amazing. It's how we can come together to come up with new ideas, to collaborate, and to innovate without having to think about borders.

Houston is kind of a melting pot. There are many different cultures and ethnicities represented out there, even on my team. It's really cool: you'll see so many different things.

I kept thinking about how ironic it is how people who live in places where there is diversity tend to love it - and the people that don't live in particularly diverse places tend to be the ones attacking it. In a way, that's similar to music, which is essentially the art of bringing things together.

The banner of the project is 'Casa de Colores.' Under that banner, I'm going to invite people to do a lot of good things. Perhaps working in groups, working on poetry.

The beautiful thing about L.A. is that you have 50 countries in one county. Diversity brings power and muscle.

If the United States is the melting pot of the world, you need entertainment - you need visuals that represent that.

Toronto is a very multicultural city, a place of immigrants, like my parents.

It's easy for me to care about Toronto, because Toronto is a community that cares about itself. It represents the world. It talks to itself, and because it does, it figures out that there must be a music garden as part of its existence.

I'd written songs with lots of people, from one spectrum to the other.

Musicians playing together, it's a conversation, and ideally I want our conversation to be really intriguing and interesting and beautiful.

When it all boils down, it's about embracing each others' stories and maybe even finding that synergy to collaborate for the common good.

Diversity is really a richness for mankind.

Race wasn't an issue. My family was French, but Yorkville was a melting pot of races and cultures.

We don't need a melting pot in this country, folks. We need a salad bowl. In a salad bowl, you put in the different things. You want the vegetables - the lettuce, the cucumbers, the onions, the green peppers - to maintain their identity. You appreciate differences.

What I loved the most about Oakland was that all of my neighbors came in as many colors, ideas, and religions as there are people on the planet. How lucky I was to know so many people that were so different and yet so much alike!

We're resolving our differences and we're looking forward to putting out a record next year.