Quotes About Culture

I guess certain kinds of jazz music could be Crunk. But the average jazz song, no, it's not Crunk.

Growing up, I was very much interested in jazz music.

Truth of the matter is, jazz is American music. And that doesn't mean bebop. Jazz is really about improvising. All the music that's been created in America has been pretty much improvised... Whether it's hillbilly or rock n' roll for blues, it's basically jazz music... It's basically about another way of hearing what comes out of America.

As proud as I am of being Polish-Canadian, sometimes I'm so jealous I wasn't born Italian.

And I was very, very much influenced by the films of Jean Cocteau and by Sartre and everything that came out of France because it was closer than America or England.

Engineering is a jeans and hoodie culture, and sales is more formal.

While I think men in general should not fuss over how they look, I do feel as though they should make more an effort to find a way to look good in their own individual, but natural way. I think it's a shame that it's become acceptable to wear jeans and a T-shirt to any place and function.

Jeans are never appropriate for business unless you are a artist or cowpuncher.

I look back at the 1990s with its light-wash jeans, and I'm like, 'What...?'

I used to love listening to Jazzy Jeff.

I date African-American women. That's all I date. In my family, it was never discussed - but I love black women. Nothing beats a sister. However, when you see a female like Jennifer Lopez, you have to acknowledge that there are many beautiful Latino women as well.

Jennifer Aniston is cute, but I wouldn't call her beautiful. I think that is why Cheryl Cole is so popular, because she is just so pretty and the public are starved of gorgeous people. When I was young, everybody on screen was gorgeous.

People come from all over the world to sample Jamaican jerk.

I don't think we have to be jerks to make good art either, but somehow we as a society have romanticised that idea.

We'd play the American bases and found all these wonderful records by Elvis, Jerry Lee Lewis, Fats Domino, Sam Cooke. Without American music, there would not have been a British Invasion.

I wear the Argentina jersey with all the values I learned from my home and growing through football.

I was raised in rural south Jersey, and there was no culture there. There was a small library, and that was it. There was nothing else.

When I went to New York, I was exposed to things I definitely wasn't exposed to in South Jersey and Pitman.

Part of North Jersey life is that everyone is obsessed with being tough all the time.

This culture is sort of antithetical in everything it says to the kids. I don't want to pick on 'Jersey Shore,' but it's pretty clear. I would tell the kids good behavior and hard work will pay off, and then they go home and watch TV and go, 'Oh, that's not true.'

I understand that there's going to be a shelf life for 'Jersey Shore.'

I always wanted to write a history of Jerusalem.

The grandeur of Jerusalem is also... its problem.

What has Athens to do with Jerusalem?