Music Blending Quotes

I loved this idea of always being a foreigner. There's this thing where people bring cultures, bring the music together. I love it when the music, when the cultures collide and something sort of new comes out of it.

In the mid-'60s, AM radio, pop radio, was just this incredible thing that played all kinds of music... You could hear Frank Sinatra right into the Yardbirds. The Beatles into Dean Martin. It was this amazing thing, and I miss it, in a way, because music has become so compartmentalized now, but in those days, it was all right in one spot.

I love rock, pop, and funk. I love being able to blend these three and create something unique for people.

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

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

One thing about Foster the People is that it's taking pieces of a lot of different genres of music and kind of melding them together.

I listen to the timbre of the music, and I fit my voice to blend with that timbre.

I love all types of music, and I think the genre lines are starting to get thinner every year.

I really like a lot of different music, and it's taken a while to make them all work together as a unit.

I used to sneak gospel tunes into my old records, just as kind of a personal thing.

Trying new things and experimenting is something I push myself to do. It's one thing to have love for all different kinds of music; it's another thing to bring them together seamlessly and make them coherent.

We mix a lot of genres - soul, pop, jazz - but we most agree on hip-hop.

You can't make jazz without using certain elements of Latin music.

There's no borders or lines you can't cross anymore. Everything is getting blended with everything. That's the dope thing about music now. Some people don't like it, more of the older people. They want to, you know, go back to old-school New York hip-hop.

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

In the future I think the labels on most pop music are going to go. Everyone keeps jumping into everyone else's space.

Ireland and America, music-wise, are very closely related. The Irish came over with their fiddles in hand, and you can hear it in the bluegrass and rockabilly. I love it when music from different countries combine.

People don't listen to one radio station. On iTunes you can mix different worlds and bring country and pop and folk and live music together with a mass audience. I could have sung 'Easy' in a country way but I just sang it how I sing. I think it's a really nice blend.

The one thing about The Weeknd is that he's gone between the world of trap music and pop music and blended them together, so it makes it interesting in that way. That's what I like about him.

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

Putting two songs together, I've always loved that trick when it works.

The type of mixing that was out then was blending from one record to the next or waiting for the record to go off and wait for the jock to put the needle back on.

Country music, like rock or blues, can move over into a lot of different areas.

Rapping and singing are not two polar opposites. There's so much middle ground. And I think there's a lot of people who find that middle ground.