Jack Bruce Quotes

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

There is no real way to categorize McLean's 'American Pie' for its hybrid of modern poetry and folk ballad, beer-hall chant and high-art rock.

I mix Indian instruments with Western instruments all the time.

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.

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.

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

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.

It's just so obscure to take a folk song in a different language and be a pretty well-respected English-speaking rock band and totally take a song and twist it around and have fun with it.

We have songs that are inspired by the Latin side. We have songs that are inspired by rock, African rhythms. Whatever country we go to usually inspires us.

I don't want to make music only for Latinos. The idea is always to make a global sound.

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

I'm very moved by Renaissance music, but I still love to play hard rock - though only if it's sophisticated and has some thought behind it.

If I were to call it black music, that would be untrue. I don't know what that is, unless it would be some African drums or something.

Music was segregated in the '80s, and then in the '90s the boundaries started to break down, and rock kids got into electronic music. But then you got this reverse snobbery where people would only listen to electronic music and not rock.

There's a similarity between European and North African folk musics.

World music is about taking things from different places and bringing them together - which is great.

Jazz has always been a melting pot of influences and I plan to incorporate them all.

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

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

If there was no black man there would be no Rock'n'Roll. The beat, the rhythms of Africa are what created Rock'n'Roll and Jazz.

I think Everclear is a weird combination of a singer-songwriter and a hard-rock band. That's why some people really dig the band, and some don't.

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.

I like to take music from everywhere and put it in my style and let it be accepted.

So I've never found there was any particular separation between the two cultures at all, musically speaking.