Quotes About Culture

I think our society has sort of built this gender binary, and the way we've said it exists does not really exist in nature.

In the past, the U.S. was the centre of the world, where everything was happening. I think my stories have always sought to question this, maybe even criticise it.

The United States' administrations... must recognize that Iran is a big power. Having said that, we consider ourselves to be a human force and a cultural power and hence a friend of other nations. We have never sought to dominate others or to violate the rights of any other country.

Physical immortality is seductive. The ancient Hindus sought it; the Greek physician Galen from the 2nd Century A.D. and the Arabic philosopher/physician Avicenna from the 11th Century A.D. believed in it.

Yashpal, writing in the nineteen-fifties, sought to indict this culture of men, Hindus and Muslims alike, who value their freedom and power over the rights and lives of women.

To have another language is to possess a second soul.

In its haste to bolster nationalism, in its obsession with security, Europe is losing its soul.

To its credit, hip-hop is my favorite genre, to this day, and it's hard not to be influenced by the culture and by the movement of it and by the soul of it.

I grew up listening to a lot of soul music, and a lot of folk music.

The '70s and '80s were just the period during which the best soul music was created and the best records were done.

The biggest inspiration I had was to take norteno soul music and fuse it with Mexican music. It was my great big idea to do that.

When I was little, I was listening to the Beatles, Bob Marley, Janis Joplin, and stuff. I had a big soul music culture, and not so much a French one.

We're Midwestern guys who grew up listening to soul music.

They love soul music in the U.K.

You cannot have black music without something soulful in it, whether it's lyrically, how it's performed, or how it's expressed.

A lot of cats in New Orleans, very soulful, very soulful musicians and they assume that they're singers. And they just make that assumption. And so when there's a little intonation problem, people are very forgiving of them because they heard how soulful they play.

The stuff that I dig, it's usually got a soulful component to it. A singer that I really like. I might not understand the language that they're singing in, but I'm really communing with this person.

My personal music style is very Latin and very soulful. It's dance meets hip-hop.

Los Angeles is a bleached-out, soulless pit.

I read a lot of W.E.B. Du Bois, who wrote 'The Souls of Black Folk.'

We gotta keep our sound alive, that dark hip-hop.

Don Cornelius gave me an incredulous look regarding my accent. I lessened it; he gave a nod of approval. Instantly, I felt ashamed. I had made my first conscious effort not to sound ethnic.

The disco sound, you must see, is not art or anything so serious.

It's funny because if you ever ask anyone in England to try and do a Beatles accent, no one knows what they really sound like. If you ask anyone in America, they would try and give it a go. English people just know their songs.