Amaal Mallik Quotes

I guess fusion would be the best way to describe my music. I think it also goes into the spectrum of electronic and dance with inspiration from Indian folk songs.

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

There's been so much fusion of genres, whether Hindi and hip or reggaeton and bhangra.

I have crazy, different influences in my songs. I want rap music, I want Congolese rumba, I want salsa, I want dance music, I want hip-hop music, all mixed into one!

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

I mix Indian instruments with Western instruments all the time.

I'm a big fan of cultural music, and that's how I try to expand my playing, by listening to music that is not conventionally American.

After all, folk-fusion is my favourite genre.

The great thing about both Indian and Western pop music is that they're fast and have a beat.

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

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!

It's great to see Latino music coming to the mainstream, but at the same time, there are also a lot more styles to explore: African music, Indian music, Chinese music.

My CD collection has a lot of world music - lots of Indian, African, Portuguese, Greek, Italian music. Because of my husband, a lot of jazz, too.

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

I was interested in both Western and Indian classical music.

I listen to a mixture of old jazz, contemporary, pop, some world beat stuff and various odds and ends.

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

I grew up listening to bachata, to some of the greats of the genre. But it was very natural for me to create this type of fusion and to incorporate new beats.

I've only been on MTV once as one of their 'Closet Classics,' with some bootleg footage of a 1970 tour I did in Holland. They didn't know what to make of my music, but they finally invented a name for it - world beat music.

I'm trying to find the balance and do, like, 'Spanglish' music or some songs in Spanish and others in English or do a translation.

I really just blend like rock, R&B and rap together to create a sub-genre, but it's very versatile.

I am undoubtedly a 100 percent Bollywood product, but my heart truly lies in making music for the world and taking India global.

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.

My music is very global.

There are a lot of country artists now that are heavily influenced by hip-hop. That's not me. I was very heavily influenced by rock & roll.