Cross-Genre Experimentation Quotes

I think Prince should open up a little more to other artists. Just because we love Prince. Especially the old stuff - we love him to death. But if he opened up he would be something to deal with. Imagine Kanye West producing a Prince track? It would be banoodles!

I wanted to go on a project which shows the mixture of Chae rin and CL, not just CL on stage or in a music video.

I'm ready to do something with Lady Gaga or Andrea Bocelli. I'm really grateful that nothing is out of the realm of possibility.

That's one of the good things about a lot of the young British bands, they are mixing all styles of music. I think that's very good because that's very now.

I do think sometimes there's danger in guest appearance mania. I've seen too many examples that sound cool on paper, like 'Oh, get that guy to sing the hook on that guy's song,' and then that's all it is. It's a cool idea that sounds good on paper.

I wasn't fully aware of the things that Madlib did musically, but my manager put me up on game. I'm not gonna act like I was a Madlib head when I wasn't. I didn't understand a lot of it at first. But it opened my mind to some things, and it's me bringing that gangster element to things that he does. It's like a perfect marriage.

... Everything we (the Grateful Dead) ever did was a demonstration of the value of cross-fertilization, It was unconscious at first, but when we started looking at each other, we had all these different influences... Bobby Weir used to call it electric Dixieland.

It's fun for musicians to step into each other's world. It's like different football teams - it's the same game but a different play.

The National's favorite experiences as musicians are when we are collaborating with people a little outside of our world as a band.

The demand for absolute purity of genres is becoming nowadays an anachronism in literature.