Quotes About Fusion

When we began Daft Punk, by the albums we made, by the interviews we did and by every opportunity we had we tried to break all the boundaries between musical genres.

There are aspects of Asian culture in my work, but it's really rooted in an American experience - transcendentalism, '60s counterculture, punk rock.

I was really into punk rock but also into musical theater.

I write plays and movies, I live and work at the borderline between word and image just as any cartoonist or illustrator does. I'm not a pure writer. I use words as the score for kinetic imagistic representations.

I started out trying to play more straight-ahead jazz. I went to Berklee in the early '60s when it was a brand new school, and so there was no fusion music. There wasn't a lot of mixing together of different kinds of music at that time, so jazz was kind of pure jazz.

I felt from time to time that shooting live music is the most purely cinematic thing you can do. Ideally, the cinema is becoming one with the music. There is little artifice involved. There's no acting. I love it.

I still think the best metal bands have a blues feel. The first Black Sabbath album is kind of a bludgeoning of blues. Deep Purple also started out as a blues band.

I wanted to keep pushing the musical ideas I had about jazz, music from Africa and the Caribbean.

My husband is American but Italian. Then I have the Mexicano side. I see both in my kids. My daughter is more Italian - she leans towards pizza - and my son leans more towards guacamole and puts lime in everything.

Swavey, it puts more than one genre of music together. That's the approach I have with all music I do.

I believe we have to bring Broadway a little Latino flair. We have to keep it alive.

For people in London, Asian flavors are always part of the culture, more than in New York.

Visual-effects shots should flow into the rest of the live action, and you shouldn't be able to see a difference.

I flow between modern and traditional jazz, between samba and choro - all maybe in a week's time.

I would love to do something with Mohit Chauhan and other folk artists.

I like a lot of soul, but I also put a lot of folk into what I do.

I've grown up with bhangra and Haryanvi folk dances.

We're bringing together the country folks and the rockers.

My whole life, I've always had one foot in the classical world and one foot in the rock, pop, and folk world.

I would love to be one of those fellows who combine formal and folk music approaches.

I like working with modern sounds in the studio as much as I'm happy to work with a basic rock n' roll format.

I dress as a combination of space cowgirl and San Francisco art teacher.

I'm taking a lot of freestyle music and flipping it.

I'm a big rock 'n' roll head, I love country music, I love yodeling music. But I'm still black and funky.