Quotes About Fusion

No place is perfect, but I admire Oahu for its offering of the tropical and the urban, and then its Asian-inflected culture and cuisines.

My guitar playing is a synthesis of traditional American acoustic style and Urban Pop and R&B.

I worked with different producers from all genres, trying to bridge different styles of music, from urban to electronica to ballads.

I have a very pop voice, but there's so much of me I associate mostly with urban music, so I try to blend the two.

The Weeknd's 'Can't Feel My Face' is very experimental. It's pop meets urban meets indie meets alternative.

I really enjoy 'festival life,' as it were, and I love the reactions when I bring out my guitar on stage. The crowd are always a bit like, 'What the hell is this urban guy doing with a guitar,' and that's what I love - the shock element of it all!

It's great to bring urban music to the commercial scene.

They believed you can't mix rock, country, and rap, and that crossover is dead. I always knew it would work. And it will always work as long as you're really into it and like what you're doing.

The richness of an artist is the fusion of influences that have shaped his life and work.

Even when I work with computers, with high technology, I always try to put in the touch of the hand.

Abstraction and realism work best together.

What's better, a poetic intuition or an intellectual work? I think they complement each other.

The best DJs in the world know how to pull in music from all over the place and make it work as a cohesive whole.

I don't separate writing songs from poetry and short fiction. In the area where I work in my house, there's a word processor and a guitar.

If you try to have a fashion show with Bach fugues and John Coltrane, it doesn't really work.

I want to do an album with Steven Seagal.

I'm kind of a pop culture stew, you know.

Music is like cooking for me: you mix the ingredients together in one big pan and see how they end up. Through experimenting, you find what you really like and stick with it.

I stick to Hindi rap. That is my USP. It gives an Indian essence to my music despite the foreign influence of the genre.

Personally, I've found one of the more stimulating ways of playing in recent times has been to kind of move outside the free improvised area and work with people who are probably improvisers but they have a particular way of working.

I'm a DJ who makes dance music who got to play with Sting.

I was exposed to many kinds of music including rock and disco, classical and folk, Midtown and Miles Davis, Sly Stone and David Bowie.

I learned to play piano in a rock n' roll context or band context from country records - you know, Floyd Cramer - and from the Beatles and the Rolling Stones and Stax. And none of those are keyboard records.

I always wanted to merge heavy metal with pop music, but I think that because I grew up more with pop, the Beatles and the Stones, I tended to affiliate myself with those projects.