Quotes About Culture

You know what's nice about Montreal? Not only is it a beautiful city, but you have Cuban cigars.

I think I love Montreal more than Montreal loves me... I love the food there.

After moving from Montreal (where French vs.English is the only conflict) to New York (where everyone is obsessed with race) it was impossible to ignore how intellectually lazy and knee-jerk people are when it comes to any mention of ethnicity.

My life was in Montreal years ago. Best food in the world.

I've spent a lot of time in Montreal, it's one of my favorite cities in the world.

A monument's dimensions should be determined by the importance to civilization of the events commemorated.

The Taj Mahal is a monument to love in all cultures.

The Beatles never got through to all ages, nor did Elvis Presley, or any of the other monuments of mediocrity that we've had.

Ancient monuments 300 to 1000-plus years old are never 'renovated,' only 'restored,' a distinction that escapes the babus.

Music creates a certain mood and then people dress accordingly. I think it's all quite closely intertwined.

I'm into fashion because it contains the mood of the day, of the moment - like music, literature, and art.

Punjabi songs are fun. They help to cheer up the environment and the mood.

The first music I remember hearing was the traditional songs of Kentucky - things like 'Roll Along Kentucky Moon.'

I didn't have much of a taste for Korean food growing up: I was over the moon about Mexican food.

The audience will show up if you have authenticity. Like 'Moonlight,' there was stuff in there that is so specific to that community where the filmmakers grew up. Even if I don't understand everything they're talking about, I will love it if I feel that it's real.

I think Marilyn Manson has a better take on America than Michael Moore and I don't think he's appreciated for his intellect.

Our culture is in moral chaos. On TV we celebrate freaks instead of honest, decent people.

We must get back to a very strong Christianity... Christianity shaped America and England, and we need to get back to those moral foundations that made us great.

I don't have a moral plan, I'm a Canadian.

You can't argue that hip-hop rots away the moral character of kids or rots their brain and still see middle-class white kids going to college who are listening to hip-hop. Going on to become healthy adults listening to hip-hop.

I'm very disappointed in my country right now, because I think we've kind of lost our moral compass.

I realize that there's a whole generation of kids out there like me who are totally disregarding the moral values taught to us by our parents.

We do not look in our great cities for our best morality.

I genuinely don't like Los Angeles. L.A. is this little petri dish of lack of morality.