Alexandre Desplat Quotes

I mix Indian instruments with Western instruments all the time.

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

I am consciously trying not to make it sound Celtic or African.

I just loved classical music, but I also loved playing rock guitar, and I loved playing piano, so it was a natural thing that those things would merge at some point.

What I'm trying to do, in my own small way, is trying to bring African and Afro-Cuban rhythms into rock.

So, immediately after that, I got a commission to write a piece for chamber orchestra, and in working on the material I discovered it was possible to incorporate the Buddhist teachings into the music, so that's what I started to do.

We deliberately used elements from Brazilian music and from African and Asian music. Now people can hear that but then it sounded so abstract, they couldn't hear it.

The soundtrack for 'Mr. Fraud' is classical with a decent level of fusion.

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

Blues, rock, and soul are part of the music I make, but there are Indian influences, too.

My genre of music is called Afro-Fusion because I fuse different types of music into a ball.

English and world music were something that I had immense love for, and to get together with a fellow Indian and bring this sound and vibe to the world feels great.

In such a globally connected world, musicians now have the unique opportunity to express all of the cultural 'mash ups' we are experiencing these days. Akin to the blend of cultures that occurred in early 20th-century New Orleans that led to the birth of jazz, I believe that the world has reached a similar cultural turning point.

I would love to have a song that fusions western arrangement with classic Indian instruments.

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.

We have a lot of people onstage. We have a live violin, live cello, live drums played on this kind of massive electronic kit with some acoustic elements built in.

I don't like the idea of 'classical crossover,' even if sometimes I see this category given to what I'm doing.

I can't escape crooning the 'Mitwa... Kahe Dhadkan Tujhse Kya' number wherever I perform. Basically, I am a classically rooted musician.

My own style on the guitar grew out of my experience with the lute. I suppose some people might say I play each like the other. And of course I know a lot of guitar fans who wish I would stop playing the lute and vice versa.

My singing is not Hindustani classical or too western. It is a balance of Indian and western music. That's the kind of music I grew up on.

American music is always best when it comes from a mixture of things.

A lot of my music tends to combine electronics and orchestra.

I definitely see myself as an international musician. When I play, I respect the source of the music, whether it's Cuban, Brazilian or Israeli. I try to bring that to all of the music I play. Music has no borders and no flags.

When you hear composer, you think, like, Beethoven: guy in a powdered wig, at a piano, furiously scribbling on manuscript paper. That's not the only image that a composer should bring up, you know. But that's kind of what we've said it is.

What I do is always hard for me to explain, but it's like a mixture of New Orleans jazz and world music, with a little bit of Spanish flavour. I just take all that and mix it with Chilliwack, and something comes out!