Quotes About Culture

Neo-soul is really less about a sound than it is about a look, in my opinion.

That Mississippi sound, that Delta sound is in them old records. You can hear it all the way through.

I'm three quarters Scottish, but I sound English. I don't really see British as a race.

Life is infinitely complex, and I feel like we live in a culture that really seems to want to simplify it into sound bites and bromides, and that does not work.

We live in an age of sound bites and buzz words.

American mass media culture, with its celebrities, shopping hysteria, sound bites, formulaic plots, received ideas, and nauseating repetitions, depresses me.

'The Sound of Music' is set in 1938 in Austria at the time of the Anschluss.

What I try to do with the accent of any character I play is not necessarily to do something that's generic - an Indian accent and that's how it sounds, for example. I think the accent needs to sound authentic on this person.

Names, once they are in common use, quickly become mere sounds, their etymology being buried, like so many of the earth's marvels, beneath the dust of habit.

Los Angeles is great for partying and also for its sights and sounds.

Dance is merging with the more mainstream hip hop/R&B scene, and there will be new ideas and sounds.

Ang Lee and 'Hulk,' for instance - a movie about a guy with different-colored skin and a lot of repressed rage? Sounds like the perfect film for an Asian, to me!

I remember really bonding with the first generation kids, the Chinese Canadian kids, and in high school bonding with the Latin kids and the East Indian kids. It was very interesting because it made me open to lots of musical sounds.

When I was 13, listening to Choice FM, I would listen to a lot of R&B from America, and whenever a British person tried to do it, it didn't really work, they just sounded like they were trying to copy that whole style. Now the music sounds British, something real rather than an imitation.

It all sounds almost silly, but the fact is that the only way to change a corporate culture is to just change it.

Mixtapes were the soundtrack, back in my day, of peoples' lives.

World events can shape culture. Music is either a soundtrack for or a narration of changing times. And who knows how that's going to go?

I didn't know a single musical soundtrack, really, growing up. Nobody listened to musicals. That wasn't a thing I did.

Every generation has its soundtrack.

I was always a Pink Floyd fan, and I was always into movie soundtracks.

Well lately I have listening to a lot of movie soundtracks.

You cannot come to a Nigerian restaurant without having pepper soup.

When I was a little girl, if I didn't eat my soup, my mother would say, 'You have to think of all the Chinese children who have nothing to eat.' But now, for my children, Chinese people make everything, and for my grandchildren, they buy everything.

I think it is important for children to read different things to find out about their emotions and other people's emotions. It is an enormous source of education and culture.