Quotes About Fusion

All the folks I play with come from jazz backgrounds or at least appreciate spontaneity within the parameters of a pop song.

It's amazing that K-pop is spreading around the world as a culture in itself.

I hope for quick, fluent copy and memorable pictures. The words would not 'describe' the pictures; the pictures would not 'illustrate' the words. Together, they would carry a stamp and tell a story.

'Stand-Up Planet' was Anthony Bourdain-meets-stand-up comedy.

The most successful hyperpowers are the ones where there was actual intermixing. Tang dynasty China was China's golden age, and contrary to what I was told when I was growing up, Tang China was founded by a man who by today's standards was no more than half Chinese. It was a mixed-blood dynasty that pulled in 'barbarians' from the steppe.

My songs lie somewhere in between the evergreen standards, rock n' roll and pop.

Jazz musicians have always taken the standards of their time and performed them with a jazz sensibility.

Some poems are like the Centaurs--a mingling of man and beast, and begotten of Ixion on a cloud.

The different colors represent the husband and the wife. What will happen when they're kneaded together? The colors could mix; they could divide neatly down the middle; one color could completely overwhelm the other—whatever happens, the two smaller balls are going to smash together and recreate themselves as a one, slightly bigger ball. That's my take on marriage.

What I like about the 'Underworld' thing is that it's a mix of cool genres, as well as creating its own message.

History is always best written generations after the event, when clouded fact and memory have all fused into what can be accepted as truth, whether it be so or not.

Practical efficiency is common, and lofty idealism not uncommon; it is the combination

I want the soul stuff, the melding of the mind stuff.

What So Not used to be a lot more dance-y, and now it's becoming a lot more melodic. Flume has always had that melodic thing, but it's starting to become a bit heavier, so it's just difficult to navigate between the two.

A gastronomical supermeal didn't necessarily have to involve the things I had brought from other top kitchens.

I do think that some bands seem to be dabbling in the rock-hip-hop world and are not necessarily serious about it.

Brain scans show synchrony between the brains of mother and child; but what they can't show is the internal bond that belongs to neither alone, a fusion in which the self feels so permeable it doesn't matter whose body is whose.

I'm real sexy and I make sexy music so I'm going to be Prince meets Nelson Mandela.

Me and Stormzy. We're gonna do an album. We're gonna do an album of Nelson Riddle arrangements in grime form. It's gonna be called 'Griddle'.

What makes a book unique isn't always about having one big grand new idea. It's about combining many different ideas in new and interesting ways.

I like marrying the concept of music with new media art forms.

We are aiming to create a one and only new music genre that exceeds the limits of pop and metal music.

A way to make new music is to imagine looking back at the past from a future and imagine music that could have existed but didn't. Like East African free jazz, which as far as I know does not exist.

New Order has always been a hybrid band. We always mixed guitar, bass, drums with electronic.