Broad Interests Quotes

For better or worse, I'm interested in just about everything: every different type of music I can imagine. I can never see a reason to choose just one type of music at the exclusion of everything else. Different types of music are capable of being rewarding in different kinds of ways.

I must remain always, both in principle + actively, interested in everything. Taking all of knowledge as my province.

I'm a golf junkie, but I'm a sports fan. I'll watch pretty much everything that's on.

My idea of a writer: someone interested in everything.

I just don't want to stop finding things interesting. I don't want to ever stop learning. I want to be a weird encyclopedia of bizarre knowledge.

I confess that I have as vast contemplative ends, as I have moderate civil ends: for I have taken all knowledge to be my province.

I'm very simple. I have to be. I'm not very smart. I start broad, then go deep where I'm interested.

To be a good designer, you would need to have deep and far-reaching interests outside of the profession.

I'm an ecumenical reader, grew up with all sorts of fiction, teach writing, went to the Iowa Writers' Workshop, so my tastes and interests are broad.

That’s the key to new and good ideas; they come from having a very broad and multidisciplinary range of interests.

I've always dipped my finger in so many things.

Something that is characteristic of me is the breadth of my interests.

I was forever reading outside of the field as well as in it.

Be interested in everything. You don't have to adore it. I don't adore hip-hop, I don't think it's great music, but I'm interested, I listen. I watch a lot of new films, I see everything. I still read, I like books, whether they are old books, new books. I'm interested - you gotta stay interested!

I like so many different kinds of music just because all I did was listen to the radio as a kid.

I'm honestly all over the board. I think if I had to pick one, I'd probably say it's country first, but I listen to literally everything: country, pop, rock, rap.

If I've done anything intentional about my career, is that I really have not - I've chosen to try to do as many different types of things as possible. That's really what I like to do.

I've never been able to say I've been influenced by a list of artists I like because I like thousands and thousands and I've been influenced in some way by all of them.

I've always been pretty ravenous about pop culture, highbrow and lowbrow.

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

I cannot be confined to just one or two kinds of music.

Thanks to my memory, which enabled me to quote Latin and to discuss Greek and Roman civilization, it became obvious to some of my colleagues in other fields that I was interested in things outside mathematics. This lead quickly to very pleasant relationships.

I don't just want to focus on soccer, soccer, soccer.

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.

Most people have a concentration in particular areas; it might be politics, it might be science, it might be business, it might be sports. I care about all of those, and that's why I've chosen the formats I chose.