Quotes About Culture

I didn't get into music until the early 90s when I heard rap music for the first time.

I don't think contemporary writers spend a lot of time reading each other. Particularly writers of the same nationality.

Which idiot put the GOP convention the same time as 'Burning Man' in Nevada? Is there time to change this?

Bob Dylan is the Jew of all time.

Blog culture has a hard time digesting narratives, but it has an easy time digesting 'big ideas' pieces.

Another stupid thing I believed for a long time was that pizza was supposed to be said peed-za.

When I came to America, I was really into all the things people eat here. . . . People called me Muffin because I would eat muffins all the time.

There has never been a time when there has been no person in Cornwall without a knowledge of the Cornish language.

Being unique is never easy, and often, by the time culture catches up with you, there are only a few people who notice.

The history of drawing is a history of 'realities'. Every age has its own conceptions, held to be true at that time, believed to be true for all times.

The music I listened to as a kid - the Stones, the Beatles - that was so rebellious at the time, it became mainstream.

In the UK, everything is a bit older and a bit more worn-out, and the people are a bit more tired. You know. I think Americans are a bit looser, a bit more out to have a fun time.

I don't waste time in flowery small talk, as people do in India.

Maybe all theatre is going to be irrelevant for all time.

There's no rational reason why opera should exist. It's expensive, time consuming. Yet in some shape or other it has always existed.

To visit a new country for the first time is great fun; but it is even greater fun to introduce somebody else to a country that you know.

Television reflects our society in a more accurate way than at any time in the past.

I'm not so sure it's so civilized to be civilized all the time.

Every time I see niqabs, I feel very uncomfortable because it's the opposite of my idea of opened society.

I've been a fan of hip-hop for a really long time, and I still am.

Western ears have a hard time hearing anything that isn't in four-four time. A lot of cultures experience music in five-eight, for example, five-four.

Horror movies are here to stay, you know? It's not a fad. Even the musical has gone in and out of style from time to time. Horror movies have always been around.

No one gives Cameron Diaz a hard time for not speaking Spanish.

I've never been in New York for the whole time of Fashion Week.