Jason Moran Quotes

I like the idea of multidisciplinary conversations, so in that spirit, I try and make a contribution from the art world into the music world.

Musical 'fusion' projects have earned themselves a bad name, but that's mainly because they often involve pop artists conscripting orchestras to play unimaginative backdrops to their acts. What's really exciting is when you spark off a dialogue between very different musical forces.

I wanted to create this dialogue between music and visual art and vice versa. No matter what part of the spectrum they fill, whether it's visual, music, or whatever, artists are interested in other art forms. Your brain is already kind of firing in that way.

I think art, if it's meaningful at all, is a conversation with other artists. You say something, they say something, you move back and forth.

I dream of a collaboration that would finally be total, in which the librettist would often think as a composer and the composer as a librettist.

I think in America there's this free flow between fashion, art, architecture, music and design. In Europe, it's more segregated between those different disciplines, I think.

Art, film, fashion, music are all going on and interacting simultaneously. And L.A. is very receptive to that fusion.

I was excited by what my painter friends were doing, and they seemed to be interested in our poetry too, and that was a wonderful little, fizzy sort of world.

Performa's founder and prime mover, Roselee Goldberg, has great instincts for which artists might collaborate well together.

I always thought about 'Station to Station' as an approach. It was about creating an alternative platform for culture where different mediums could co-exist.

From my standpoint, being an artist, I want to see what the new construction is between artist and audience.

Anything I do with Team Sleep, I'd do with Deftones as well.

The music business inspires designers, and designers inspire the music business.

It's fun for musicians to step into each other's world. It's like different football teams - it's the same game but a different play.

The evolution of art is not only driven by artists, but by a conversation between the artists and the audience.

My goal is to communicate how powerful the breaking down of artistic barriers can be when grounded in thought, intention, and a true understanding of all the forms that are being experimented with.

Opera should be a place for art forms to meet. I've worked a lot with Peter Gabriel; his music isn't operatic, but he creates big, popular gatherings to which architecture, dance, and music are all invited.

Art is collaboration: we are artists all over the world. I believe that people are always going to watch Hindi films... that's never going to die, but I think it's amazing that collaborations like that are happening.

Clapton was just picking up ideas. He picked up some of mine like I picked up some from the people before me.

The art world doesn't exist in a vacuum.

The National's favorite experiences as musicians are when we are collaborating with people a little outside of our world as a band.

Life imitates art and back around.

For some reason, we have completely separated Christians who are rappers, and we have separated, I guess, regular rappers. I feel that we should be able to mingle, enjoy each other's company, and trade ideas.

Hip-hop was indifferent to Broadway. We didn't need Broadway, but I think Broadway needed hip-hop.

Whenever I work with people who are nonclassical artists, I kind of get a kick in the pants. I think, 'How can I apply what I do to their music?'