Quotes About Fusion

Each city should have its own type of restaurant.

What I'm trying to do, in my own small way, is trying to bring African and Afro-Cuban rhythms into rock.

I spent my last year of high school in Latin America, and there's a edge of salsa under all of my rhythms.

I always wanted to make rock music as well or as an element of what I do.

My favourite city of all has to be Seattle as it seems to encapsulate everything that is great about both Britain and America.

My roots are in everything from doo-wop and blues to the Four Freshman and the Beach Boys and jazz and electronica. But it was put together in a deceptively simple package.

You never imagine that the Green Bay Packers were going to be in something you wrote or singing 'Bootylicious.'

I think that we'll see the concept of 'genre' continue to die a slow and painful death.

I've always liked writing. Even when I was in art school and thought I was going to be a gallery painter, I liked to pair my artwork with writing. And so that naturally led to drawing comics.

I am from Chicago, but my dad is from Karachi, Pakistan, and my mom is from New Delhi, India. So, I've got a little Paki-Indie fusion going on here.

Whenever I work with people who are nonclassical artists, I kind of get a kick in the pants. I think, 'How can I apply what I do to their music?'

The joining of the Japanese with the French should make a new movement. I think it should be good for Paris.

I think EDM and metal and rock have been together already for a long time. Bands like Nine Inch Nails, Linkin Park, the Prodigy - they all have influences from both.

When the moon was first visited in 1969, the astronauts brought back a treasure trove of unique minerals. Contained within specimens was an isotope called Helium-3, which turns out to be the perfect fuel for fusion reactors.

Slowly poetry becomes visual because it paints images, but it is also musical: it unites two arts into one.

I began composing works which were imitative of the music I was being told about. I was also very interested in translating the music into visual terms.

One often thinks that using 2 different things like visual and sound lead to 2 different conclusions - to a different content - but in in my case it is all one.

Jazz vision for me is seeing my art in musical term. It offers me an visual expressions in an ever-changing musical palette.

I couldn't do a record without knowing I'll translate it into something visual.

I started as a visual artist and I've always dealt with music in that same sort of way.

Honestly, I've been reading a lot of books on visual art. I've been reading a lot of books by Olivia Lang, I've been listening to a lot of folk and singer-songwriter music, but also a lot of electronic and really hard techno. I'm just trying to create something that pulls from everywhere and that hopefully feels unique.

As soon as I went to painting school in New York, I took an experimental film course, and everything clicked and came together. I realized my love of music and drama and the visual arts all came together.

We are aiming to create a new genre with a new style in terms of visuals and sound. A mixture of dance and metal which strays away from the traditional or conventional metal band.

I'm sort of like Jean-Paul Goude, the graphic designer who used to style Grace Jones and shoot all her visuals, just meaning that I use all mediums in one - music, fashion, and art. I'm hitting it from all angles.