Quotes About Culture

When I started, I didn't know how to sing in Arabic - it's a very complex and sophisticated music full of codes and modes and quarter-tones.

The West has become very sophisticated, seeing love as a very complex thing. In Bollywood, it's not complex: it's an arrow straight to the heart.

Once you get to 22 or 23, you're already old school. It's the bubblegum ones that buy records, have fun, party. You get older, you get sophisticated, and you don't go buy no records too much.

Mumbai is more film based and cosmopolitan. It consists of a mixed community, but I personally feel that Delhi is more sophisticated and enjoys theatre more.

Hebrew is my first language, so it's really the most personal and the most simple. When I write in Hebrew, I don't look for sophistication in music; it's just pure emotion that comes out.

As a child, I craved sophistication and culture. My parents didn't know what to make of me.

There is more sophistication and less sense in New York than anywhere else on the globe.

My grandfather was actually a doo-wop singer in Panama. They were called The Dominos. He was the high soprano voice.

Our culture has become increasingly intolerant of that acute sorrow, that intense mental anguish and deep remorse which may be defined as grief. We want to medicate such sorrow away.

I feel sorry for the '90s, because it was never able to be anything much more than the hangover to the party that was the '80s.

If I turn on the television, am I to believe that that is America? I'm sorry, I don't believe that's America.

I'm sorry - you know, culture is elitist. Culture has to be elitist: it's about seeing and knowing and about knowledge.

It's too hard for me to comment on the sorry state of our culture.

I really feel sorry for new generation. It's hard to find backbone. I never had crisis of identity. But I think many Americans have it.

I really feel sorry for kids who aren't interested in history - recent history, either, because it is this that made us what we are.

I'm sorry for Italian football; there's no desire to improve Italian football.

I guarantee you 80 percent of this country will stop watching cricket if they did not bet on a match. Every single person bets I am sorry to say.

Yes, I am a Bengali but I am sorry I can't converse in Bengali.

America has a culture of not saying sorry. I think there are a lot of people who will never admit they're wrong.

The cartoon is a metaphor really for the fact that it's almost impossible in our celebrity obsessed culture to move around genres and sort of change you ideas, change your face, you know?

You're sort of programmed a certain way because of your environment. That's all you know. But we don't have that anymore because of the internet. Because of the internet we're all communicating with each other all across the board, so you're getting information from people all around the world, hitting a much more diverse slice of culture.

What is a literary festival? Imagine a sort of cross between school and church. There are no actual festivities; what there are is a lot of public readings.

Fantasy is sort of a blank slate that everybody can project their own culture onto. Everybody can read it in their own way.

Popular culture bombards us with examples of animals being humanized for all sorts of purposes, ranging from education to entertainment to satire to propaganda. Walt Disney, for example, made us forget that Mickey is a mouse, and Donald a duck. George Orwell laid a cover of human societal ills over a population of livestock.