American music comes from the same tree, but sometimes we get to these places in history where we forget where things come from, and they get compartmentalized.
As a lover of both hip-hop and jazz, I feel like much of the latter community still doesn't truly embrace hip-hop as a musical extension.
There is a definite Chinese pop sound developing, but I was shocked at how influenced it is by American music.
We're bringing together the country folks and the rockers.
My idea of heaven is a place where the Tyne meets the Delta, where folk music meets the blues.
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.
The difference between psychedelia and digitalia ages will seem like a smooth blending in years to come and will be a mere blip on the screen.
Jazz has borrowed from other genres of music and also has lent itself to other genres of music.
Guys like me and Ray Charles, when we was coming up through our days, country music and soul music was just a very thin line between the two.
I'm not interested in a rock/jazz fusion.
In music, there is no country; there is no time.
