Quotes About Culture

I think hip-hop can be prophetic and progressive, and at the same time, the dominant forms tend to be homophobic, misogynistic and something that we need to critically call into question.

Ireland's just a place...people go there all the time.

One of the things I had a hard time getting used to when I came to California in '78 was Santa Claus in shorts.

The next time your daughter asks, 'Where are all the men?' Tell them that the Democratic party and its policies got rid of them'

I think of Steely Dan as being of its time, and it may be inseparable from its time.

I always felt like I was born in the wrong time period. I felt like I should've been born in the mid-to-late '40s.

A second characteristic of our time is the prevalence of nationalism. This is still spreading, affecting new communities, more peripheral regions and so-called backward peoples.

It's a really good time for California right now in music.

It's difficult to act in a language that's not your own. It takes a long time to put your head around it and feel confident with it.

The Muslims observe their Sabbath on Friday, the Jews observe on Saturday, and the Christians on Sunday. By the time Monday rolls around God is completely f***in' worn out.

I hate to say this, but at the time, (late 70's) it was like the smart people liked punk and the dumb people liked Journey.

My time of martial arts was traditional.

Televisions and movies have made many Americans into habitual consumers of synthetic experience-audiovisual fantasies that simply pass the time.

Singers come and go; the music business waxes and wanes. The blues are popular and unpopular, often at the same time.

It's complicated, being an American, Having the money and the bad conscience, both at the same time.

We live in a culture where people are self-centered and careerist and everybody seems to think they have too much on their plate or they just don't have time for other people's pain.

We spend too much time fretting over the way the industry produces programming, and too little worrying about the way the public consumes it

There was a time when cell animation was poison, but after Family Guy now everyone wants it.

I think in this, definitely, because you are feeling how it felt to live in a completely different time. The mannerisms and the way that people behaved was quite different.

I am continually influenced by the feeling that music culture captured in the late 60s - for my generation, it was a time to rebel, against our parents, against everything.

I am a big fan of music and clothing style of the 1960s. Whether in England or the United States, I like everything from that time.

I haven't done an international film for a long time.

I grew up in the 80s and that was the first time advertising was considered seriously as anything resembling an art form.

I can't remember the last time I went to a game and there was a fight. I think they fight more in baseball now than they do in hockey.