Quotes About Culture

I always knew who I was and where I had come from. I was not looking for a home in other people's lands.

We are the meeting place, an entity that's trying to connect faith and culture.

My grandmother knew J.F.K. and L.B.J. That was her world. I enjoy meeting interesting people. But that's not my world.

That's what hip-hop is - it's about meeting the music where you are, and then you add on top of that. It's about coming at it with your full self.

I went in for a meeting with Marta Fernandez, and she said, 'We are looking for a female millennial show. Have you heard of the term 'chipster'?' And I was like, 'Of course - Chicana hipster.'

I'm in L.A., but I don't do L.A. things except go to meetings.

But the eighteenth century, on the whole, loathed melancholy.

Melbourne has great eateries and you can go birdwatching.

I think Melbourne is by far and away the most interesting place in Australia, and I thought if I ever wrote a novel or crime novel of any kind, I had to set it here.

I just love the culture of Melbourne.

I grew up in Melbourne.

A lot of people think that because I'm from Malaysia, I'm driven by Malaysian sound, but actually, it's mostly just my melodies.

In Latin America, people want you to write beautiful melodies and words. But there are also songs that do well because they show the reality of life.

When I was young and didn't know any English, I was drawn by the energy and power of foreign songs and their melodies.

I'm part Latin, so everything in the Latin culture is - there's a lot of hyperbole, and there's a lot of melodrama.

The clarinet is not so dominant in Israeli music as it is in klezmer. I heard klezmer when I was growing up, but for some reason I avoided it. I listened to Louis Armstrong instead. But the sense of melody is the connection between jazz and klezmer.

We have been fortunate enough to travel a lot and we focus heavily on melody and that really is an international language.

I certainly know German colleagues in the U.S. who try to be Americans, try to melt into Americanism, even before they get married and become American citizens. But I've never tried that.

I'm a member of the African diaspora: my parents left the Caribbean and came to London for a better life.

I deeply believe that if the Australian Labor Party, a party of which I have been a proud member for more than 30 years, is to have the best future for our nation, then it must change fundamentally its culture and to end the power of faceless men. Australia must be governed by the people, not by the factions.

I'm still a member of the Empire! Although I sometimes feel like an American with a British accent - you get contaminated after so long.

My mother was a member of the Cape Coloured community. 'Coloured' is the South African word for the half-caste community that was a by-product of the early contact between black and white.

The Chinese view the state, not just as an intimate member of the family... but as the head of the family.

I was never really a bone fide member of the folk scene.