Quotes About Fusion

I don't believe in sampling some Tibetan music just to make it sound groovy, but you do your homework, you understand what you're doing with it.

I'm very moved by Renaissance music, but I still love to play hard rock - though only if it's sophisticated and has some thought behind it.

A well-rounded performer will listen to all kinds of music. I like classical, Middle Eastern, and rock a lot.

If one takes all the styles in jazz harmonically from the earliest beginnings to the latest experiments, he still has a rather limited scope when compared to the rest of music in the world.

[Bebop is] Chinese music.

Of course, it's not the technique that makes the music; it's the sensitivity of the musician and his ability to be able to fuse his life with the rhythm of the times. This is the essence of music.

Music has always been transnational; people pick up whatever interests them, and certainly a lot of classical music has absorbed influences from all over the world.

There's no field of music which doesn't have good ideas.

Country music has always been about as close to R&B as you can possibly get. We're storytellers.

One thing that I always liked about fashion was that it was tied in with music and art and film.

If it hadn't been for Jazz, there wouldn't be no rock and roll.

I liked rock music, I kind of moved into that sphere, somehow thinking that somewhere along the line I'd be able to put the two together. And I suppose I very nearly did with the Ziggy character.

Unlike a lot of choreographers, I don't always start with the music. I often start with a visual artist, and then find music that fits the world of that visual artist.

We deliberately used elements from Brazilian music and from African and Asian music. Now people can hear that but then it sounded so abstract, they couldn't hear it.

Fusion has been my nemesis.

It's really cool to see glowsticks at the show, to see dance music culture infiltrating and becoming one with the metal community.

I'm a fan of music from all over the world.

You can't make jazz without using certain elements of Latin music.

I also like Western classical music and jazz.

Hip hop is the new rock n' roll, you know what I mean? And anybody who doesn't think that is just sort of living in the past. It's all just American music, really, when you get right down to it.

Country music artists are staying true to their roots, keeping it country but throwing a little bit of rock flair in there which I think is a good thing.

When I hear bluegrass today, I hear so many new sounds in it. It's almost like country music in a way.

I see myself in pop culture. I listen to pop music, I do pop things, and I'm also a scientist.

I combine aspects of many styles of music and create my own musical forms by way of electronic instruments.