Greil Marcus Quotes

In the '50s, listening to Elvis and others on the radio in Bombay - it didn't feel alien. Noises made by a truck driver from Tupelo, Mississippi, seemed relevant to a middle-class kid growing up on the other side of the world. That has always fascinated me.

I think for music, it's global. You have a song, it sounds good, everybody likes it.

I believe that music is an international language and deserves to be heard all over the world.

My father was interested in bringing reggae music to the entire world.

One of the good things about globalization is it has created a single international music community, and I feel very much part of it.

All over the world, the idea of creating an melange of international musics, it's a very healthy thing.

There is beautiful music in every country in the world, but there is only one kind of music that travels all over the world: Black, American, Jazz!

I wanted to explore the connections between different kinds of music.

I've always been attracted to multicultural music. It's where the world is going.

I've largely focused on Japan my whole career, so I was interested to see how my music would be received by people of different backgrounds, religions and cultures.

American music is a powerful ingredient in international music, and as much as it comes from within, it also comes from without.

I think Diplo is a true global artist. I feel that he is exposing country artists to his global reach and that's something that is rarely done in our genre.

Music has no language barriers and this has been proved right several times by the Chennai audience.

Just look at 'K-pop' - who would've expected American fans to embrace it? It's really cool to be one of those artists who can break through the American market. I'm not trying to conquer America; I just want to make music and see if people like it.

When I travel I always try to see shows from a local group, and with the Internet it's important to have a global vision of music.

By and large, Americans close their ears to anything not in English. That's stupid because there's some great music around the world that we should be listening to.

Hip-hop educated me about other forms of music, because it sampled from all different styles.

Great music is great music. It doesn't matter what genre it belongs.

I'm moved by a lot of different kinds of music, whether it's pop music or R&B or straight-ahead jazz or free or opera or music from all parts of the world.

Being in Blur has allowed me to travel and hear the music that's being made all over the world.

I used to think that, given enough goodwill, anybody would be able to 'get' any music, no matter how distant the culture from which it came. And then I heard Chinese opera.

The Blues scene now is international. In the '50s it was purely something that you would hear in black clubs, played by black musicians, especially in America. But from the '60s onwards it changed.

Music doesn't really require whether the person's a young person or old person for whatever kind of music it is.

I'd love it if American kids were listening to Muslim music.

I grew up listening to all kinds of music, everything from country to rock, pop, R&B and even rap, so for me, music is music and a great song is a great song.