Quotes About Fusion

I was able to learn a new language - a new musical language is learning a new language, because it's so extremely different from Western classical music. African music is completely different.

It's really funny how I've come round to classical music around the back door with my banjo in my hand, and I love it.

I would have never thought to put cello and beatboxing together. But I did, and it was extremely hard work to make it cohesive and musical, but it worked.

Every art I do is a collage.

Blues became rock, rock became soul, and all of it was colorblind.

If I were to put on Barbra Streisand and Duke Ellington, one might say the combination isn't good.

There's an attitude that I have where I bring the art to the table and the writer brings the writing to the table, but neither of us brings the story to the table. The story is something that only happens with the combination of both of us.

I decided the things I enjoyed were quizzes and television, so I decided to find a way to combine them.

Basically, great directors know how to combine music with the scenes that they are working on.

I think my album, 'United We Are,' was the perfect blend or radio- and festival-friendly songs. I try to combine both.

I've always loved burritos, and I've always loved breakfast, and when I learned that some smart person had combined the two, it was a real sun-peeking-through-the-clouds moment.

Like art, revolutions come from combining what exists into what has never existed before.

I am comfortable combining the old and the new.

I chose people who would complement the songs that I put them on.

It is quite amazing how K-pop has developed over the years. This genre has so many musical components that it has no limitations.

'Zara Thehro' stemmed from a thought of marrying two separate thoughts - musical and conceptual.

I've always had a close connection to both rock and classical music.

I grew up surrounded by both Haitian and Japanese culture.

I love Somali foods like canjeero, a pancakelike bread; same for pizza, burgers, and sushi.

I love the juxtaposition of a sweet little blouse with a motocross look.

Going back to the Byrds and 'Sweetheart of the Rodeo,' when country was kind of getting away from the fiddle and steel aspect, it took some rock & rollers to introduce a new generation to it, and it kinda put some things straight.

I swing with a lot of torque from non-fiction to fiction, and I really like that place in between.

A kind of synthesis, but with some elements that perhaps you wouldn't have expected in advance. I always like that when that happens, when something comes that is more than the sum of the parts.

To most people, jazz-fusion means this dreadful synthetic jazz-rock thing, this jazz-Muzak, which I detest. They also think of jazz as a specific form of music, while to me it's just the opposite.