Quotes About Cultural exchange

A traveler's chief aim should be to make men wiser and better, and to improve their minds by the bad-as well as good example of what they deliver concerning foreign places.

The ability to mingle with so many countries and cultures is extremely valuable for men and women.

I know no place at which an Englishman may drop down suddenly among a pleasanter circle of acquaintance, or find himself with a more clever set of men, than he can do at Boston.

These men of many nations must be taught American ways, the English language, and the right way to live.

My mom, she's from Ireland, coached tennis in Nigeria when she was a missionary and turned me on to it when I was young.

I make the most money, I think, in Russia and Paris, for the people of those countries are so willing to be amused, so eager to see something new and out of the ordinary.

Become familiar with your home, but know also about your neighbors. The young man who never went anywhere thinks his mother is the greatest cook.

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

Music is all about transporting people, speaking a language which languages fail to express.

Jazz does not belong to one race or culture, but is a gift that America has given the world.

I feel like I've been blessed to be able to travel with this music, so I always try to get down with the locals.

Music has always been transnational.

Anywhere you had a commerce center, you had a lot of music.

I want to help promote Korean music around the world.

International exchanges are not a great tide to sweep away all differences, but they will slowly wear away at the obstacles to peace as surely as water wears away a hard stone.

I don't believe that economic and cultural interaction automatically brings greater peace and understanding, although it may help in that regard.

I like to think that someone will trace how the deepest thinking of India made its way to Greece and from there to the philosophy of our times

I am the East. I have philosophies, I have religions, who would exchange them for airplanes?

The greatest skeptic must now admit that the land and sea-borne trade of India had given her a world-wide fame not only for her gold, spices and silk, but for her religions and philosophies also.

Poetry is what is gained in translation.

I think there's no excuse for the American poetry reader not knowing a good deal about what is going on in the rest of the world.

I think translation is an impossible job, and I admire the people who do it in a way that brings poetry to us that we wouldn't have access to.

I was recently on a tour of Latin America, and the only regret I have was that I didn't study Latin harder in school so I could converse with those people.

It seems the natural thing for us to listen whilst the Europeans talk.