Quotes About Fusion

It's all a matter of hearing what I like and seeing if I can make it fit into my style.

Personally, I think young musicians need to learn to play more than one style. Jazz can only enhance the classical side, and classical can only enhance the jazz. I started out playing classical, because you have to have that as a foundation.

If you think of any strange fusion with bachata, most likely, we've done it. It's bachata mixed with different elements. We don't follow any style.

The beauty of jazz is that it can accommodate all styles. You can take jazz and put rock in it, and it's still jazz.

Eclecticism is the word. Like a jazz musician who creates his own style out of the styles around him, I play by ear.

Classical cooking and molecular gastronomy should remain separate. You can mix two styles and get fusion; any more, and you just get confusion.

I definitely want to act, but I also want to score movies, and I have this idea to fuse classical music with other styles that would give it a different perception.

The best part about living in New York is that you are able to play with different people in different styles in the same week. It's really part of who I am as a musical person. I try to incorporate everything that I encounter.

We played together for so long and we got to the point where our styles blended together. Even today, sometimes I'll hear our records and I'm not really sure who played what. And we took a bunch of acid together too.

Hip-hop is a collage. It samples from all different styles of music.

I was exposed to a lot of OutKast, Timbaland, Eminem, and my mom introduced me to India.Arie and Erykah Badu, so I guess I'm a mash-up of those styles.

We weren't afraid to mix some crazy styles into the standard rockabilly look. We also took a lot of different musical influences that were part of that era.

The folk music definition has changed in this fast music world and musical styles are blending really quickly.

I mix up all styles on my albums because that is what music is about now.

Bruce Lee loved all different styles of martial arts. He believed that you shouldn't limit yourself to one style, because martial arts is just another form of human expression.

I never thought that I would be creating my own 'cross-over' genre. What I did was very real and organic. I have worked in so many different styles so it all just came together.

I don't really see huge barriers between any styles of music.

My favorite thing about decorating is mixing different periods and styles. If you have something that's old, and you really do want to mix those styles, then you have to add something that's obviously modern with it. You can't put a kind of a mediocre thing in the middle.

I think what the story of Yes has been is we've wandered in and out of different styles over the years.

I take the best of all the styles I like and put them together in one package.

I don't see categories; I don't see styles - l see them all gelled together. And it was gospel that definitely helped me to do that.

If there's only one genre that it's possible to listen to or possible to see live, then how can you explore different styles? How can you evolve, musically?

I've worked with Childish Gambino for so long, so I've learned that from those producing skills - how to really produce music - where, of course, it's about writing, but it's also about combining sounds and styles and genres.

I think with everything I do, I'm trying to just come up with new ways of creating music and mixing styles together. That's just what's fun for me to do, to try to make myself inspired.