Quotes About Culture

I'm really getting to appreciate traditional jazz now - the New Orleans stuff - a lot more than I did before.

I am very proud of what we have built in Spain, because it is not a traditional Formula 1 country. I think we have found passionate fans, and built up a strong culture for the sport - and things are improving every day, with more and more people getting interested.

My book is traditional. It runs counter to the post-modern spirit.

Well, dojo is a traditional Japanese word for training hall.

The destruction of Chinese traditional culture didn't start in 1949. It started long before that, with the succession of revolutions. It was particularly bad during the Cultural Revolution, the destruction of traditional Chinese culture.

My father is Portuguese, and in Portugal, it is traditional to take your mother's maiden name as a middle name. My mum is called Tough.

Despite the efforts of some parents, children still tend to act out the traditional sex roles of our culture. The child's peer group may have more of an influence over this than the parents.

I love the holidays on 'The Middle' because I feel like I'm getting that very traditional American holiday experience that I never had growing up.

While growing up, I lived in a traditional joint family in Mumbai's suburbs.

My family is very traditional, Catholic.

The traditional American family has always been the foundation for success in America.

The traditional tango is really staccato, but with the Argentine tango, you have to be really sexy and saucy.

In the traditional dances, physical contact was permitted in a way that it wasn't in everyday life. The electricity of physical contact has gone therefore from young people's lives.

So many of the sounds that contemporary composers were trying to create were to be found in the traditional musics of the world. That was encouraging but also little daunting to think that you had to work so hard to be new and yet it was old.

A period film, where you, for example, where you have a traditional wardrobes, you are bound to act a certain way. But in a modern film, a lot of body gesture.

'Meri Odhe Naal' is a traditional Punjabi song and our constant endeavor is to traditionally urbanize the folk sound and bring it to the masses.

In traditional Asian arts, the word and the picture always sit next to each other. I have an aunt, a Chinese brush painter, who told me that when you do a Chinese brush painting, you have to pair the image up with some poetry.

In traditional schools, you're penalized for making a mistake. But that won't work in the new information culture, in the digital world we live in today.

I grew up with a heavy diet of gospel, folk, and blues because those are kind of the cornerstones of traditional American music.

The death of anti-gay hate speech is no doubt being hastened by the head-spinning speed with which gays as a group - to say nothing of gay marriage - are becoming an unremarkable and even quite traditional parts of American life.

I grew up listening to a lot of player-piano music in my house and a lot of old Tin Pan Alley songs and American standards. My dad listened to a lot of traditional Irish music and I grew up doing musical theater. So most of the music I was exposed to as a kid was pre-rock n' roll.

I'm the only one in my family - I'm a practicing Jew - who has attached themselves to religion in a more traditional way.

Being an Ethiopian-born, Swedish-raised chef, there's nothing traditional about my Thanksgiving spread.

I grew up dancing salsa - you know, a traditional Puerto Rican dance.