Arto Lindsay Quotes

Cumbia is a beautiful rhythm. It's a music that has indigenous, African and European components. It's played in all of America - from Argentina to the U.S. It has mutated and been nurtured by everyone who comes across it.

Unquestionably, our contemporary world of music is far richer, in a sense, than earlier periods, due to the historical and geographical extensions of culture to which I have referred.

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

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.

New Age is a very small box. It was a term that was brought in by the music industry to classify music that is neither jazz, classical, pop or rock. They didn't know what to call it or what to do with it. So they threw it all together under this one name.

The folk music definition has changed in this fast music world and musical styles are blending really quickly.

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.

Jazz has borrowed from other genres of music and also has lent itself to other genres of music.

I am consciously not trying to bring in World Music elements. The ways that I work and feel are completely different in how they sound than someone playing the Kora in Africa would play it.

There is a definite Chinese pop sound developing, but I was shocked at how influenced it is by American music.

I have a very strong identity that connects me to Argentina and to Latin America, but at the same time, I have a deep connection to the music from the United States and music from Europe, too.

One of my problems is I'm not really sure if I slot into rock or not. I've always tried to combine world music, folk, jazz, blues and rock, and have done since Traffic.

There is beautiful music in every country in the world, but there is only one kind of music that travels all over the world: Black, American, Jazz!

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

When other people look at K-pop with a more traditional Western lens, or when people listen to it, it may sound like a combination of all different genres.

At the heart, it is world music that I do. It's all connections. Ultimately, we're all connected.

I listen to all those kinds of music, from classic soul to hip-hop to Brazilian music to, you know, jazz to indie to alternative... And for me, when I'm making music, it's all in my head, and all those influences in my head. So if something comes to me that's a reference from a different genre then people are used to hearing from me, I'm not afraid to go there with it.

Everybody does music from his culture and his experiences with his culture. There are not so many people who are interested by the music coming from different countries and different cultures and trying to make music from that, from all these experiences.

I was a big fan of Middle Eastern elements of music and experimental electronic and tribal sounds.

Sound as medium has an incredible elasticity. So, of course, it is tempting for artists of other fields to try something with sounds. Why not? We are living in the age when there is no limit in gathering all forms of art and music to mix it together if you so desire.

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

Well, Smoke n' Mirrors has very much a world music flavor and it doesn't park itself in one country. It borrows heavily from the Brazilian angle, which is dear to my heart, and I recorded several albums with that flavor.

I had the fortunate experience to play with people from different schools of music. Sam Rivers is from the fundamentalist school of music.

People like Jeff Buckley, the Mars Volta and Bjork made me listen to music differently. You learn the voice is an instrument you can do crazy things with.