Quotes About Culture

You should be able to be influenced by art no matter where it comes from.

I grew up in Beijing, and there weren't many modern buildings during my childhood. I was influenced by traditional culture - the courtyards, the hutongs, the old city, and all the art forms - so, very naturally, I brought this to my practice.

I think jazz is the foundation for a lot of great musicians, and then after that, you know, it's this broad expression of things that really have influenced and addressed your life.

My music is influenced by L.A. culture.

I want to be influenced by the world not TV or film.

I love movies. They've always influenced the music i've done.

I think that's part of the beautiful game. It's kind of this special relationship that happens in football, where you get kind of influenced by the people around you and the different cultures around you and it allows you to grow and develop.

If you're going to spend two or three years of your life working on something, you've got to be making the kind of movie that discusses and influences the culture and is engaged in the world you're living in.

I am not afraid of European influences. The point is to use them, as Ellington did, as part of my life as an American Negro.

The two biggest influences of the '70s were Don Cornelius and Bruce Lee.

From when I first started listening to music, M. S. Subbulakshmi has been one of my biggest influences. She poured her heart and life into everything she sang.

Most of my influences are turn-of-the-century.

My earliest influences were things I heard in my household.

I think music influences fashion and has done so for generations.

Movies are the biggest export in the world, the biggest American export. It influences people all over the world.

I'm an Australian, and when I grew up much of my influences were American - blues music and country music, all that sort of thing.

Shetland's influences are far more Scandinavian than Celtic.

Streetwear for me is what I was raised wearing in London, and my style influences growing up were always people who wore streetwear.

My music is really fun music, with some pan-African and pan-American influences.

I do feel like the blogs that I follow share an aesthetic and draw a lot from '90s influences.

Blues, rock, and soul are part of the music I make, but there are Indian influences, too.

My biggest influences when I was a kid - I listened to a lot of top 40 radio, so whatever the big artists were, so, like, the mid-'80s.

I just think our British cuisine and the different influences we pull together make it special when it comes to food.

Theatre and cinema have been major influences in my life.