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.
When I perform I like to immerse myself in the music and I just try to get off on the diversity of music.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Hip-hop is interesting but American pop music doesn't have the kind of diversity that the UK does.
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.
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.