Quotes About Fusion

Alchemy is one of the good quote-unquote south-Asian experiences in that it has a wide variety of classical to experimental music.

We've incorporated different sounds from different countries and genres, and we've explored widening the range of our music.

My mother likes what I cook, but doesn't think it's French. My wife is Puerto Rican and Cuban, so I eat rice and beans. We have a place in Mexico, but people think I'm the quintessential French chef.

Wild garlic and crab is a revelatory pairing.

What has impressed me the most about the Italians whose tables we've sat at is that they are traditional cooks but also outrageously innovative. These people are wild improvisers.

A lot of my music tends to combine electronics and orchestra.

To stay interested in tennis, I have to mix it up with other things.

Jazz, for me, is a closed circuit, like the term baroque in the world of classical music.

K-pop is a weird term because K-pop has everything - rap records - it's very pop-sounding; there are really boy-band-sounding records.

Explain to me what Italian-American culture is. We've been here 100 years. Isn't Italian-American culture American culture? That's because we're so diverse, in terms of intermarriage.

Because of the anxiety inherent in being vulnerable and undefended in a new love relationship, an individual unconsciously attempts to merge and form a unit with the loved one. In forming a bond, the lover is able to alleviate anxiety and attain a false sense of security and safety by sustaining the illusion of being fused. The fantasy of being connected functions as a defense, for whenever this bond is broken, the underlying pain and fear of separation invariably surface.

Es verdad que la vida y la literatura se entremezclan de una manera tan indisoluble como intensa

Somehow no matter how odd the combinations are, they always end up looking perfect together.

Indigenous is a birthright word. No amount of time or caring changes history or substitutes for soul-deep fusion with the land.

wisely mingled poetry and prose.

the mixture of German and American spirit in them produces a constant state of effervescence.

Here it is different, here the past is as alive as the present, the unpredictable cruel Stone Age coexists with the calculating, cool age of electronics—the two eras live in the same man, who is as much the descendant of Genghis Khan as he is the student of Edison… if, that is, he ever comes into contact with Edison's world.

The next four girls were led from the wall into the centre, where the red blended with the blue and settled into a respectable purple. Again the couples began absorbedly describing circles on the village-hall concrete to the beat of the song that the scrawny singer was enthusiastically belting out

Things, even people have a way of leaking into each other like flavours when you cook.

A little bit of one story joins onto an idea from another, and hey presto, . . . not old tales but new ones. Nothing comes from nothing.

I, however, was raised neither as Catholic nor as Jew. I was both, and nothing: a jewholic-anonymous, a cathjew nut, a stewpot, a mongrel cur. I was--what's the word these days?--atomised. Yessir: a real Bombay mix.

Things—even people—have a way of leaking into each other," I explain, "like flavors when you cook.

Half-Christian, half-Jewish, a 'cathjew nut'

How does newness come into the world? How is it born? Of what fusions, translations, conjoining is it made? How does it survive, extreme and dangerous as it is? What compromises, what deals, what betrayals of its secret nature must it make to stave off the wrecking crew, the exterminating angel, the guillotine? Is birth always a fall? Do angels have wings? Can men fly?