Quotes About Fusion

My dad was into classic rock and R&B, which I originally started in. And then my mom did the country.

Israel is a mishmash of other cultures. It's like New Orleans; it's a meltdown of other cultures.

New Orleans has a lot of good food.

When I'm creating a song, I'm thinking of a hip-hop beat playing on a live drum set - kinda like the Roots would do. I will put New Orleans music on top of that with some other rhythms.

I just want to spearhead and lead a new style of New Orleans music.

Since I'm born here, my music will always have some New Orleans elements.

I always have a little bit of Brazil and New Orleans in my band.

New Orleans is like my blood; it's not going anywhere. And then I just take different things that I've learned over the years and add them to what I'm doing with the natural New Orleans sound.

Bollywood music is so international now, and our music has become global.

I feel like no matter what we do though, we'll always have hip-hop and a little bit of R&B in our music.

I like that outlaw crossover rock 'n' roll-country sound.

I learned to not separate writing, shooting, and editing, it's all sort of one big mess of creative output.

Puzzelstukken uit diverse periodes, die onverwacht en onverhoopt opeens in elkaar schuiven. Zo moet het zijn om jazz te spelen. Uit de brij valt plots dat ene verscheurende akkoord, zonder repetitie en toch volmaakt getimed. Getoonzet door een genadig toeval. In dank aanvaard door de geduldige muzikant.

I write plays and movies, I live and work at the borderline between word and image just as any cartoonist or illustrator does. I'm not a pure writer. I use words as the score for kinetic imagistic representations.

It became apparent that communications and computing served each other so intimately that they might actually become the same thing;

The way to create something beautiful is often to make subtle tweaks to something that already exists, or to combine existing ideas in a slightly new way. This kind of work is hard to convey in a research paper.

Architecture is art, but art vastly contaminated by many other things. Contaminated in the best sense of the word – fed, fertilised by many things.

What is wonderful about my art is that dream and reality can become one. There is just one step between the two.

The arts are encroaching one upon another, and from a proper use of this encroachment will rise the art that is truly monumental.

I think Mixed Martial Arts is going to be a huge thing coming up in pro wrestling, and I like to think of myself as one of the first guys to try and implement that into my style.

I always thought martial arts was the most modern choreography we could have right now, and I always wanted to put it to music.

More and more, cultural groups are cross-pollinating, and we're getting much more interesting art as a result.

The literary artist lends verbal depth to the visual. The visual artist provides visible articulation for the literary.

Coming into Pacifica I knew that I wanted whatever I was going to learn there, I knew I wanted to integrate that into my art no matter what.