Quotes About Fusion

There are a lot of country artists now that are heavily influenced by hip-hop. That's not me. I was very heavily influenced by rock & roll.

Always my collections are made of different influences.

I definitely get affected by new stuff. There's a lot of older influences, but there's also newer stuff too.

I think that what happens is that all of my modern influences blend together with the older soul influences and you get Mayer Hawthorne.

It's amazing to me to see how bands evolve and how they take all their influences and come up with their own sound.

My music is really fun music, with some pan-African and pan-American influences.

Blues, rock, and soul are part of the music I make, but there are Indian influences, too.

I just think our British cuisine and the different influences we pull together make it special when it comes to food.

We want to return to an era when we think music was better basically but still infuse it with something modern.

American music is a powerful ingredient in international music, and as much as it comes from within, it also comes from without.

'Look at Me' started with Rockford, Illinois and New York and the question of how much image culture was changing our inner lives. That's an abstract idea; you don't think that's going to be a rocking work of fiction, but it seemed to fuse in a way that was interesting.

It's hard to point to any single inspiration for 'iZombie' since, in actuality, it's made up from elements inspired by all kinds of different thing all mashed up together.

I feel like there are things that inspire the music, and then there's the music itself. I don't feel like I always need to force them together.

I am inspired by alchemy and all things continuous, uninterrupted, and effortlessly fused into wholes.

Back in the day, being a young, inspired bass player, I started to gravitate toward jazz fusion. I almost would have called myself an elitist. I got to the point where, for a little bit there, I was more interested in instrumental music.

I thought it would be interesting to play classical music on rock instruments.

I would love to have a song that fusions western arrangement with classic Indian instruments.

Sometimes I wish the writing and drawing were more integrated.

You need music that is compelling and intellectual, but you also need music that just feels good and you can laugh about and dance to, and I think I'm trying to marry the two in some way.

I think the most interesting things happening in VR are going to be somewhere in between what you call a traditional game and what you call a traditional movie.

I have lots of different interests. Any of my friends will know I'm interested both in science and in art.

Fashion and interior design are one and the same.

All over the world, the idea of creating an melange of international musics, it's a very healthy thing.

There will be great books. There will be great films. Sometimes, if we are lucky, the two will intersect.