Neville Marriner Quotes

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

Blues became rock, rock became soul, and all of it was colorblind.

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

We need to try to unite audiences, unite countries, join musical tastes, unite people.

I do believe that one way to bring cultures together, to develop trust between people and countries and religions, is through education. And through music and art and basketball and activities and joys that people share worldwide, regardless of ethnic background or religious orientation.

My idea to bridge the world together with music starting in Asia and going to the West is something that is new, untapped and leading to the future of bringing the worlds together.

The great thing about the arts, and especially popular music, is that it really does cut across genres and races and classes.

I love having different cultures around, but when the parent culture kind of dissipates, you're left thinking, 'Well, what's going on?'

I think we're about ready for a new feeling to enter music. I think that will come from the Arabic world.

Maybe one day music will just be music, and there won't be these categories; it'll just be different shades of music.

Going back and forth between Western Arabic and African countries clearly created the various musical backgrounds I could have and obviously influenced my professional attitude, my way of approaching both music composition and singing, particularly phrasing.

Culture is mix. Culture means a mix of things from other sources. And my town, Istanbul, was this kind of mix. Istanbul, in fact, and my work, is a testimony to the fact that East and West combine cultural gracefully, or sometimes in an anarchic way, came together, and that is what we should search for.

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

My idea of heaven is a place where the Tyne meets the Delta, where folk music meets the blues.

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

We live in a global society today where all our cultures intermingle.

Assimilation is what has made America great.

Canada is a really big melting pot of cultures, so we ended up with a giant mosaic of different music.

I'm not afraid to embrace different music and different culture and put it in the music.

I have no problems with a multicultural society; I think that is to the benefit of the country. But you have to be careful what levels you take it to.

Music is open-minded and has always travelled, every country takes something from another, and that's what makes the richness of music.

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

The point of teaming up with American musicians was that there was no better way than that of music to let people from both the sides know what either of them thinks about the other.

Babymetal's music is something that no artist has attempted in the past, uniting people as one by crossing language barriers and national boundaries. It was a huge revelation when we realized that our music has such power.

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