Quotes About Fusion

Your mother's recipe for fish heads and rice, no matter how celebrated in her village of origin, doesn't cut it in these days of grapefruit foam and Scotch/tobacco ice-cream.

In Mexico we have a word for sushi: bait.

Getriebe!? Ob dieser außerirdische schreibmaschinengesteuerte Hightech-Flieger mit Schwerwasser-Kaltfusions-Antrieb wohl mit Automatik daherkommt?

The old debate on whether or not the Chinese or the Vietnamese made the best American food ran through my head. Everyone knew that you couldn't depend on a North American–run place, because gringos just aren't good at such things.

So I picked separate passages from books that I had already read and wove them together into different stories, one with no end and no beginning, all turmoil, a lawless world where characters change identities in the middle of a scene...

It is this fusion of God speaking to us (Scripture) and our speaking to him (prayer) that the Holy Spirit uses to form the life of Christ in us.

Slowly poetry becomes visual because it paints images, but it is also musical: it unites two arts into one.

The whole point is to take from our native culture and from contemporary culture without using one art form to mimic the other, so that our native identity remains the native identity, the contemporary identity remains the contemporary identity, and the mixing of these two musical identities creates a third musical identity.

I think, in history, everything is about the remix.

If I just remix and release, no one will listen. I am adapting, changing the song and merging a new song into an old one.

From country rock to Cajun, classic rock to Latin, and blues to Americana, I've had the pleasure of re-discovering the 'jewels' from my repertoire that are so well-liked.

There's this kind of dialogue between African music and dance music, especially Moroccan stuff, because it's kind of ceremonial and has built-in repetition.

I grew up influenced by different cultures, sounds, feelings, emotions, and I want Premiere Classe to be a representation of that.

I think representation is something that's absolutely needed. I felt like with K-pop being so hot, we could leverage that to potentially do something bigger with music in the States that people could latch onto.

However, I need to make music that represents my inner truth and inner voice. I've found myself more able to do that within an international space that has an Indianness at its root but branches out to encompass sounds and cultures across borders.

My mother comes from the Dominican Republic, so I have the Latin side in me, and I grew up with Gypsies. But I like any kind of music as long as it's good music.

So American culture is itself a hybrid and lends itself to use in other people's hybrids.

I'm a hybrid.

I never imagined that I'd end up in animation, but marine biology and art collided, and here we are!

World cross-fertilization is fantastic. Immigration across the world has led to all kinds of fantastic new and exciting kinds of food being available. And there's all kinds of different kinds of restaurants.

It is impossible to imagine a more complete fusion with nature than that of the Gypsy.

I grew up with all different genres of music, and I want to include that in my production as well.

I want to experiment and include different elements of the music-making process in a song.

I grew up listening to bachata, to some of the greats of the genre. But it was very natural for me to create this type of fusion and to incorporate new beats.