Ludwig Goransson Quotes

The musical instuments may be western but my voice never wavers away from my own ragas. it is good to make experiments and I do a lot of them but my thoughts always round the centre and that centre is the tradition of my elders and it is classical music...

If I were to call it black music, that would be untrue. I don't know what that is, unless it would be some African drums or something.

The whole point is to take from our native culture and from contemporary culture without using one art form to mimic the other, so that our native identity remains the native identity, the contemporary identity remains the contemporary identity, and the mixing of these two musical identities creates a third musical identity.

People say my music is English. I don't know what it is. Maybe it's not me writing English music, but that English music is becoming more like me.

Where I work, in the Arab region, people are busy taking up Western innovations and changing them into things which are neither conventionally Western, nor are they traditionally Islamic.

I think that what happens is that all of my modern influences blend together with the older soul influences and you get Mayer Hawthorne.

I don't know if it's a movement, but the only thing new that's happening is that I think music and art and video and fashion are all kind of thrown into one big ball that's on television, and people see that all the time - you see a fusion of all those things.

It's a tough line, Japanese and western games. We wanted to blur that line.

I've always loved mixing Middle Eastern instruments into a classical orchestra.

African music, though very old, is always being rediscovered in the West.

I have a lot of cultures within me - I'm basically chop suey.

I grew up very American but also fully Asian.

My mom is a white Jewish lady, and my dad is black. The cultures never seemed separate - I had a lot of mixed friends. When I was young, I identified with being Jewish, but I embraced my dad's side, too.

I'm playing deep African music.

Brazil is my way to see the world. Being born in that country means: "you don't have a wall separating the physical reality from the magical reality."

All cultures have been mingled forever.

To us, it's vey natural. Initially, it sounded kind of strange to people, because it is different to put traditional Irish music in a pop and rock mode. But they get used to it -- it is our sound.

I'm never really sure what that word means, but however inaccurately I use it, 'classical' was always my ideal, as long as I can remember, and something of that has always stayed with me, to this day. Of course, there were difficulties, because in comparison to my ideal, I didn't even come close.

The Banh Mi sandwich is really the only good argument for colonialism.

Especially for this film [ 47 ronin] there's a nice mixture between western and eastern. So Ronin wearing the boots, like Western style. It's a nice mixture.

My dad, the old professor, used to say, 'Never get into an argument about what's folk music and what isn't.'

I thought it was cool how [ Riccardo Tisci] wanted to blend Africa and Asia because they relate to each other in so many different ways.

When I write a novel I put into play all the information inside me. It might be Japanese information or it might be Western; I don't draw a distinction between the two.