Quotes About Fusion

We grew up with every type of band from Primus to Mr. Bungle to Elton John to pop music to metal, and we try to throw it all in a blender. And whatever comes out of that is more Avenged Sevenfold than metal or metalcore.

We have always played classical music and always loved dance and pop music.

My two most fervent interests are pop music and traditional Judaism. Hell of a pair of fervent interests.

The great thing about both Indian and Western pop music is that they're fast and have a beat.

I personally don't like to draw a line between 'K-pop' and pop music, but I do think it is a good time for K-pop artists to be shown to the world, because the world is just ready for it.

I try to not go, 'I'm writing a pop song.' Music is inherently genre-bending.

It's different for every song. But for 'Say Something,' I think it was Chad who had an idea on guitar, and I had an idea on piano for different songs, and we just married them together. We bounce things off each other constantly and kind of massage all these ideas into a three and a half minute pop song.

Like everybody else, I love a good pop song. You know, there's nothing like it. I also just really like music that goes off on extended forays of extrapolation into different areas. So it's kind of nice to be able to move between those two poles.

I think pop music was going through a phase where it was like pop but dance-hall or pop but R&B. But, no, I just want a pop song.

I went through all these different phases in my life. And now, I'm finally in a place where I know who I am; I just needed that extra push. I feel really, really good in the position I'm in right now, and I don't feel like I completely neglected my pop-rock sound: I was able to bring it in with my country roots.

Films and gaming are blurring together, and it makes for brilliant popcorn entertainment.

I am one with the popular culture.

I'm trying to fuse popular and commercial music and just make very creative music. It's popular music: it's everything for everybody.

I like Jaco Pastorius' 'Portrait of Tracy.' He was this bass player who played jazz fusion. He was the dopest bass player who ever lived.

People don't think of cello as a rock instrument, really, and we want people to know all the possibilities that the cello can offer.

Jazz has always been a melting pot of influences and I plan to incorporate them all.

America is not a melting pot. It is a sizzling cauldron.

I love London. It is such a melting pot. Everything is here.

Honolulu is a melting pot.

I love Caribbean food. It's a great melting pot of so many cultures including the Native Americans.

New York's food scene is truly unique because it is this wonderful melting pot where immigrants from all over the world have brought with them their cuisines and their ingredients.

My own personal melting pot has no room for Hendrix or heavy metal, filled as it is with European ancestors such as Debussy, Sibelius, Bartok, Lutoslawski, and Ligeti.

Paris was a melting pot.

My family's very, very mixed. I am, I guess, a kind of melting pot in a person.