Quotes About Culture

I'm becoming hip to my children because bands of their generation name us as influences, so you can definitely hear it, the same way as we were influenced by other people.

I think that if you hear music young, whatever music you hear influences you. I'm white, but I've been influenced by black music.

When it comes to engaging and influencing culture, too many Christians think too highly of political activism.

I'm trying to be like the old Roc- A-Fella and Bad Boy, influencing people culturally but having hits at the same time.

Latinos been a part of hip-hop culture and every other culture; we've been influential in every aspect of life.

When I think of influential females in hip-hop, my mind goes to Foxy Brown, hands down.

I think that every time you bring a subject into the mainstream landscape of television, it can have a huge impact. Television is such an influential medium.

I realized the power of hip-hop. I realized how influential this music and this culture are.

I've lived my entire life in New York, and it informs everything.

Entertainment is one of America's greatest exports. And the stories that we tell about people inform the world about how to think about people.

History informs where we are and how we got here.

The information is in the people, not in your head.

We aren't in an information age, we are in an entertainment age.

I like to do some research and learn about the destination before I travel there. I read up on its history, culture and food, which is most important. Being informed makes the travel so much better.

I love being in Delhi, the food and the infrastructure are amazing.

Unless you're dying, it's ingrained in our culture to play. Pain doesn't hurt; it's just pain.

I grew up on hip-hop and crate-digging and those sensibilities are deeply ingrained in me.

Of course L.A. has its mad bits: you can get a collagen cappuccino if that's what you really want. But the American Dream is so ingrained in the American culture, and the place you go to find it is L.A.

American music is a powerful ingredient in international music, and as much as it comes from within, it also comes from without.

The arts have always been an important ingredient to the health of a nation, but we haven't gotten there yet.

Every era has its own list of ingredients that are considered exotic and then, 15 years later, they're not.

I'm a culture guy. I sort of know all the familiar ingredients to get something going. Once everyone starts to buy in collectively, then that culture can start being built.

London is not just an international financial centre: it is also one of the most ethnically diverse places on earth. Three hundred languages are represented within its boundaries, and - as is true of some other English cities - more than half of London's inhabitants describe themselves as non-white.

We will, as Americans, inhale another culture on a fork before we try their music or their art or even, God forbid, hang out with the actual people.