Quotes About Fusion

People should listen to my music if they are into a lot of different genres and kind of want to get it all at once, if they want to listen to a story, an interesting story about somebody else.

Growing up, I always liked so many different sounds from so many different genres - the different aspects they could bring.

I don't have a genre because I play lots of different music that people would say are different genres.

All of the genres are just blending now, which I think is another super-cool thing.

I like the idea of blending genres.

Like two single gentlemen rolled into one.

If you try to do a genuine rock musical, rock people will think you're flaccid and Broadway audiences will think you're too loud.

I like the fact George R. R. Martin took Shakespeare's political plays as material, but he also took on all sorts of other sensational stories and mingled them in together.

I think Bollywood and cricket go hand in hand. Glamour attracts glamour. Cricket has become a very glamorous game now.

Reggaeton is a global genre.

The good thing about 'Nuyorican Soul' is we get a little bit of everybody liking it.

I just like blending all the genres together but blending them up in a good way. I try to be as free as I can with it.

There is always the poet, the lunatic, the lover; there is always the religious man who is a queer mixture of the three.

If one does all these things to a human being, what is left is no longer precisely a human being. It is a man plus large elements of hardware. The man has become a cybernetic organism: a cyborg.

As life goes on, they become not two compatible beings who have learned to live together through self-suppression and patience, but one new and richer being, fused in the fires of God's love and tempered of the best of both. One by one, the veils of life's mysteries have been lifted. The flesh, they found, was too precocious to reveal its own mystery; then came the mystery of the other's inner life, disclosed in the raising of young minds and hearts in the ways of God;

La palabra mestizaje significa mezclar las lágrimas con la sangre que corre. ¿Qué puede esperarse de semejante brebaje?.

There are a lot of artists that I love, and I think they're really talented, and they're good dancers as well. I've always wished that I could combine that.

I listened to 'En la Ceremony' and had always wished it had some flamenco guitar.

Being used to scientific terminology and theory it was always natural for me to push this stuff into songs.

Guys like me and Ray Charles, when we was coming up through our days, country music and soul music was just a very thin line between the two.

There's a very thin line between rock and funk. Funk is like a dirtier blues, and so is rock. They're close cousins.

Being jazz-trained, things happen spontaneously. Even though it's funk rock, we still have the instincts of a jazz musician.

I lived in Scotland a long time, and I became aware of Mogwai really from the beginning. They seemed to be fusing hard music structure and sort of raw sonics. They're just very creative thinkers, musical thinkers.

I became a clown when these docs came to the house in Berkeley and asked me to come cheer up kids. I'd just had my third spinal fusion and I was looking for something to take my mind off the pain I was in.