Quotes About Culture

The farther I go East in the U.S. the more I get recognized because of more sports crazy the East Coast is.

When I go down to Mexico now, it's not quite like I'm in Kansas City, but maybe it's like when I'm in Atlanta the way I get recognized. That gives me a lot of pride.

In the Middle East, I can't walk down the street without being recognized. In the States, I'm totally fine going out.

You're bound to be recognized if you do well. Although I guess in India that's taken to another level. I can't remember how many selfies I must have posed for.

To me hip-hop is a culture and I became an MC to be recognized as a dope lyricist. That's what I wanted to be recognized as. So when I'm writing rhymes I always take it very seriously.

I think a lot of us are increasingly recognizing that the dominant culture is killing the planet.

I am humbled and honored to receive the Genesis Prize, recognizing not just my professional achievements and my desire to improve the world, but also my commitment to my Jewish identity, Jewish values, and Jewish culture.

I'm a Western chauvinist. I'm all about the culture. Now, part of that is recognizing that white males seem to be the ones who made it and respecting that, but it doesn't mean you're not invited to the party.

I went to Japan to experience a new culture, and I would recommend that any footballer does that. But the main reason I went was to play football.

I think that a lot of the stories I would see was kids who are first-generation immigrants, watching them try to rip themselves from their family and their faith and kind of erase. I hadn't really seen anything where someone's trying to reconcile the two.

The Rockwell magazine cover was more a part of the American reality than a record of it.

The record industry is a world within itself.

There are no record companies in Waikiki.

Everything about my life was culturally rich, and all the people I met sort of reinforced the wackiness that was normally inside of me. No one said, 'You can't do that,' until I got to real record companies, that is.

If you come from Africa with your economic poverty and your cultural riches, and you meet someone like Peter Gabriel or a person from a big record company, and they tell you that what you are doing is marvelous, that makes you feel powerful.

I started DJing, breakdancing and MCing in the '70s and I got my record deal in 1979 with 'Christmas Rap.'

I've started my own record label - Jeepney Music - and I want to put out my own stuff and also stuff by other Filipino artists.

People don't go to the record store anymore. It's crazy. The culture used to be so much stronger. People would go and support you, and go pick up the album. Not just for the music, but for the liner notes, for the artwork, just for the whole thing and to have it, and be able to say, 'I have this album.'

For a Jewish guy, I've recorded a lot of Christmas albums.

Hip-hop is a part of rock & roll because it comes from DJ culture. DJ culture is the embodiment of all genres and all recorded music, if you actually pay attention to it.

In Jamaica, the music is recorded for the sound system, not the iPod. It's about experiencing music together, with other people.

I've recorded in Portuguese, too. I didn't set out to just sing ballads or romantic songs.

In 1966 I recorded my first bolero album. I was about 18 years old then and I recorded it because I wanted my parents to know that I hadn't lost my identity of being Latino.

For me, just as a social recorder of 2016, there's a new girl that emerged that can shop in between Zara and designer and still maintain a sense of her personality and identity.