Quotes About Fusion

Even though my father had a really successful career before the '60s, that kind of insane pop-culture splash that happened was so massive. People hear the sitar and immediately think, you know, flying carpets and tie-dyed T-shirts and wafting smoke.

My career had been split pretty evenly between good guys and bad guys until I finally grew into myself enough to play a decent antihero, where you can combine the two.

There's this whole split personality thing of being a farm girl and a rock and roll girl.

When I say a spoken Hebrew sentence, half of it is like the King James Bible and half of it is a hip-hop lyric. It has a roller-coaster effect.

Marriage is when two people are joined together to become one desperately boring person.

Olympism is the marriage of sport and culture.

The man, the art, the work--it is all one.

One plus one equals three. When a man and woman marry they become one never two.

A gazebo on top of a welding rig" was how Yul might have described it, if only he had been here.

For a fraction of a second he was a yellow blossom of flame in the stream of light, and then he was one with it. All that remained of what he'd been was a wisp of steam coiling above the torrent of fire.

I'd bite off the Beatles, or anybody else. It's all one world, one planet and one groove. You're supposed to learn from each other, blend from each other, and it moves around like that.

If Beethoven and Bach hooked up with Mozart and made a band, they could be a distant runner up to The D.

I've always been attracted to multicultural music. It's where the world is going.

When you bring multiple cultures together, there's a degree of push and pull.

I have a restaurant in Sri Lanka, and I feel keen to open up something here in Mumbai and bring Sri Lankan food here in India. I feel we have so much in common, but we have a different cuisine, and I am sure people will enjoy here.

In Mumbai, you get good international food but there are few restaurants that serve good Indian cuisine.

I always get excited over James Murphy's work and everything that comes out of DFA. I really like the way that Murphy and LCD Soundsystem mix electronic, dance and rock together.

I look at American movies, the big muscles, and try to apply that to Chinese film-making.

Historically, black music has influenced other cultures and other genres and created other genres.

I have a great affection for Indian culture and music.

Amalgamation is a good word that I like to use - musically and in every way.

Typically, people think, 'Oh the hippies and the punks hated each other,' or that those things don't go together musically. Sometimes that is true, but we had equal parts of both in our musical DNA.

I woud definitely want to collaborate with Indian musicians.

What intrigues me is that you get a good bunch of musicians together, and interesting things will happen.