Quotes About Culture

There are quality films being made in all languages, whether in Hindi cinema, Bengali or the south. Bollywood doesn't represent Indian cinema, per say.

I watch lots of movies, both English and Hindi.

I never really thought it was so important to work in Hindi movies.

I don't differentiate between films and TV, particularly Hindi serials.

Tamil films have to be faster than a Malayalam film but not as fast as a Hindi film.

I love old Hindi songs, black and white films.

I was born a Hindu, I shall die a Hindu.

I am a Hindu, brought up mostly in India.

I'm a Hindu and a Nepali by birth.

If our Hindu culture forbids beef meat, does the same culture give you the right to abuse me and my family just because I have an opinion that you don't agree with?

I belong to a Punjabi Hindu family.

MTV didn't call. I guess I wasn't hip and groovy enough.

It's almost hip to, you know, be from Brooklyn or to live in Brooklyn.

It's almost as if people think that in Latin America we're not hip to what's happening here.

The bar is set pretty low if you want to be a hip, accessible conservative.

I don't know why this concept of what is hip became so important to me.

My parents were fairly young in the city of Compton. So the things that they played - you know, that was the hip crowd. So I was being exposed to all these ideas, from Big Daddy Kane to Eazy-E to the Bay Area - Too Short, E-40 - you know, back to Marvin Gaye and the Isley Brothers.

It was not hip for people to like us, because their little sister liked us.

Kids haven't changed since my day except they are more hip.

I have done big festivals all over Europe with hip hops acts and everything else.

As much as I would like to be the one who saved hip-hop culture, it's pretty much nigh-on impossible.

A lot of the things I do deal with my race, but my race is who I am. I'm an American kid who grew up listening to predominantly hip-hop. I will talk about hip-hop as the music I grew up listening to, and I think sometimes people like to put it as, 'Oh, well, he's talking about black things.' And, yeah, they are, but that's my American identity.

I think Ye is important to hip-hop.

America used to say that hip-hop was a cancer. Then it embraced that cancer and realized, 'Hey, this isn't a bad thing. It is part of us, just more America.'