Quotes About Culture

Flipside, Maximumrocknroll, and Forced Exposure—but there were literally hundreds of smaller zines that collectively framed the indie aesthetic.

The male-female relationship, as a subject for song," Albini wrote, "is thoroughly bankrupt.

certain kinds of music will never be accepted by certain people.

rock & roll was an intrinsic part of a young person's soul, an engine of social change and not just a consumer commodity.

We're all voracious acquirers of information, whether it be books or movies or whatever, we're just really vastly into what's going on in culture and trying to synthesize what's going on. I think that was just a natural impetus, a natural tendency.

The Buttholes, always up for a good submersion in the fetid cesspools of the psyche, were a reminder that the underground was still the rightful preserve of some of the culture's most bizarre manifestations

Music can bind people in weird ways—socially, information—a lot of people get everything they know from songs and groups.

So they decided to make their own culture, and it couldn't have been more different

Everybody likes the idea that there's this burgeoning, happening scene somewhere in the world.

Being Palestinian," I said, "means never having to say you're sorry.

In Sweden, self-sufficiency and autonomy is all; [interpersonal] debt of any kind, be it emotional, a favor, or cash, is to be avoided at all cost. The Swedes don't even like to owe a round of drinks.

Even if we're among the lucky few who benefit from civilization, we find ourselves curiously unsatisfied, plagued by stress, worry, and conflict... Like the addict who believes against all evidence that what he can't give up won't lead to suffering and death, our culture adheres to its ideas in spite of ample, clear evidence they will lead to suffering and death.

The devolution of American culture takes another great step forward

Entertainment has a bad name...The word wears spandex, pasties, a leisure suit studded with blinking lights.

Black people live their whole lives in a fantasy world, it's just not their fantasy.

The odd agglomeration of Warshaws, the product of a long and determined program of overseas adoptions, with its combination of Jews and Koreans, intellectuals, space cadets, and sharpies, no two of them related by blood, seemed to offer me the best chance yet to wire my wandering meteor to the armillary sphere of a family.

But we have learned to mistrust and despise our human aptitude for being entertained, and in that sense we get the entertainment we deserve.

Black people live their whole lives in a fantasy world, it's just not their fantasy.

The Filipino-style Chinese donut, or shtekeleh, is the great contribution of the District of Sitka to the food lovers of the world. In its present form, it cannot be found in the Philippines. No Chinese trenchermen would recognize it as the fruit of his native fry kettles. Like the storm god Yahweh of Sumeria, the shtekeleh was not invented by the Jews, but the world would sport neither the God not the shtekeleh without Jews and their desires.

They're all Jewish, superheroes. Superman, you don't think he's Jewish? Coming over from the old country, changing his name like that. Clark Kent, only a Jew would pick a name like that for himself.

The civilized people in the world, the ones who hide behind culture and art and politics… and even the law, they're the ones to watch out for. They've got that perfect disguise goin' for them, you know? But they're the most vicious. They're the most dangerous people on earth.

She's interested in Japanese history right now, so that's what I'm reading to her. And there's this saying they have about conformist society: The nail that sticks out gets pounded down.

más que un par de tatuajes.

He didn't understand why he always saw people typing feverishly on their phones. He was sure it was some sort of warning, a sign of the decline