Quotes About Fusion

The fusion of areas of consciousness which for us are more or less clearly defined leads, as it were, to a perpetual game of hide-and-seek with ourselves and to a confusion of ego positions. Emotional instability, ambivalent pleasure-pain reactions, the interchangeability of inside and outside, of individual and group—all these result in an insecurity for the ego which is intensified by the powerfully emotional and affective "vectors" of the unconscious.

In the early uroboric state there is a fusion both of man with the world and of the individual with the group.

Neoplatonists also believed that the vast variety of human thought, if traced back to the One Source—what Leonardo da Vinci called the Prime Mover—would lead to spiritual enlightenment and ultimately to God. This and the mystical texts that Ficino was translating led him to attempt a fusion of all mystical beliefs, from Greek gnosticism to Egyptian hermeneutics to Christian cosmology—and to Jewish Kabbalah.

The world is becoming more global, and our music is reflecting that.

My musical selections are a reflection of how I grew up. Because, back then, you could see Miles Davis and Ravi Shankar on the same stage. And nobody thought anything of it, other than the fact that it was great music.

I've been told I'm an old soul, but I'm only 25. I have the old with the new in me, and my house reflects that.

I don't think you can mix classical music and reggae. It's not possible. But some producer in, like, Norway is going to put it together.

Reggae music isn't Jewish, but a lot of the ideas are.

When you scratch the soul of hip-hop, you find R&B and funk but also reggae.

I want to do more R&B, more reggae, everything.

I come from an African Caribbean background. I've been influenced by a reggae church music style, contemporary gospel, and rock all fused together.

I've never shied away from country. 'Karma Chameleon' verges on country. Reggae and country are very closely linked. If you go to Jamaica, you hear a lot of country music. There's a correlation.

A lot of Indian musicians settled abroad are fusing Indian music with reggae which I find very impressive.

We want to sound modern, but we're still influenced by ska, reggae and Eighties U.K. bands.

In Tijuana, because there's such a mix and match of people and regions and we're a newer city and everyone comes from some place else, I think we're just given permission to play with our food.

Souljazz doesn't reinvent soul, jazz or the fusion thereof, but it plays all of the above with the passion that drove its forefathers.

I was raised on African music, Harry Belafonte, and the Boston Pops. Then I got a dose of soul and hip-hop. I related to it immediately.

Ireland and America, music-wise, are very closely related. The Irish came over with their fiddles in hand, and you can hear it in the bluegrass and rockabilly. I love it when music from different countries combine.

I am a hip-hop fanatic, and rock fanatic.

I can't turn hip-hop off, just like I can't turn comic books off. It blends into everything for me.

I didn't want to go out and change anything. I just wanted to make the music that was part of my background, which was rock and blues and hip-hop.

I think the average country music fan grew up the same exact way that all the artists did, listening to hip-hop and country and R&B and pop and whatever it may be.

One of my favorite hip-hop artists is Makonnen. One of my favorite bands is Fall Out Boy. You put those two together, and that's Lil Peep.

I'm trying to make music that I like, and I love hip-hop. At the same time, I love guitar. I love rock and everything.