Quotes About Fusion

'Provenance' is more than a multimedia concert. It's a journey that unifies cultures through music, theater and beautiful visuals.

I want everything to build and create a massive artwork composed of different songs, colors, physical art and visuals.

I feel a vocabulary in my music that is coming from popular music. Popular music is like the mother of all languages.

I can sample Blink-182 but put an African vocal sample in there.

I'm always thinking 'how can I blend something?' whether it's musical instruments, voices, or the people around me.

It might seem difficult to separate my artist and my writing career, but for me, it's just music.

To me, comedy and music are not even really separate entities.

When I grew up, there was one music: rock n' roll. Somewhere along the line, there was a separation. I don't know why it happened, but it did happen.

I love the folk-rock of the Seventies and the pop of the Eighties.

A right balance between music and lyrics is important. Music complements lyrics.

I played in ska bands and like all kinds of music.

There are no great jazz-fusion bands.

I like remixing Barry White and ABBA songs.

With me and basketball, it became part of me.

More traditional guitar, bass, drums - it's not something completely natural to me. It's, in a way, exotic.

I spent my whole musical career trying to be different and make songs that people think shouldn't go together... go together.

I need to open a restaurant, a big soul food restaurant in Beijing!

I'm so interested in taking tropes from other movies and putting them on something where it doesn't belong.

Not everything needed to rise to converge: It could just drift together into the indiscernible middle, and bewilder you.

Omul ajunge s? se confunde, treptat, cu forma destinului s?u; cu vremea, el se suprapune circumstan?elor vie?ii sale.

I was a big fan of Middle Eastern elements of music and experimental electronic and tribal sounds.

If you ask what people say what American cuisine is, they cannot really do it. I don't know what it is.

You have to be very careful how you insert new stuff, 'cause people want to hear the old stuff. It's like cooking, you know? You can't put too many peppers into the eggs... otherwise it's going to be distasteful.

I'm very inspired by other cultures and very often use what I perceive to be exotic ingredients.