Tan repeatedly stresses that as a composer working for all mankind, his philosophy is to take forms that have been severed from established culture to become new musical categories, and blend them into a creative fusion.
譚盾一再強調，作為一位為全人類而工作的作曲家，他的音樂理念，就是要融合任何被固有文化分隔成不同類別的音樂，讓他們互補長短。