Quotes About Society

The story of a marriage was an excellent way to fulfill the goal of discussing class without discussing class, and to tell an audience that they were upwardly mobile.

Religion is a virus that we cannot get rid of. A virus of the brain that comes from no other source than itself. We who are uninfected must find the cure.

I think popular music in this country is one of the few things in the twentieth century that have made giant strides in reverse.

Art and music are the vehicle for the zeitgeist.

Violence existed before our music was even suggested.

We have always created - music, literature, art, dance. The art around us - or lack of it - may be a measure of how we're doing as individuals and as a civilization, so maybe we should be worried.

Dear Hip Hop, we can't scream 'murder, misogyny, lawlessness' in our music & then turn around and ask for equality & justice.

The function of pop music is to be consumed.

Country music has become the music that best represents the reality of American life.

Ugly girls generally don't become successful in music. And it sucks because it's a standard that just exists.

Explicit material is available in a variety of forums - from popular music to television to the Internet.

Pop music often tells you everything is OK, while rock music tells you that it's not OK, but you can change it.

I mean, people listen to music, and they like that, but I think in England, a lot of people don't like contemporary art.

The radio is in the hands of such a lot of fools tryin' to anesthetize the way that you feel.

Rock & roll is a type of sensuous music unfit for impressionable minds.

I guess now music is so saturated and so microwaved. It's, like, 15 minutes in the microwave and boom, you've got something. Nobody's putting passion or any thought behind it anymore.

If one should desire to know whether a kingdom is well governed, if its morals are good or bad, the quality of its music will furnish the answer.

Poetry fettered, fetters the human race. Nations are destroyed or flourish in proportion as their poetry, painting, and music are destroyed or flourish.

The world went mad and used us as an excuse.

Music is always a reflection of what's going on in the hearts and minds of the culture.

Musical innovation is full of danger to the State, for when modes of music change, the laws of the State always change with them.

The life of the arts is far from an interruption, a distraction, in the life of a nation, is close to the center of a nation's purpose-and is a test of the quality of a nations' civilization.

I think rap music is brought up, gangster rap in particular, as well as video games, every other thing they try to hang the ills of society on as a scapegoat.

Whenever there's a change with Jazz & its aesthetics, it's almost always reflected with a change in the culture.