Quotes About Culture

the Europeans often believe paper over people.

My dad came from Cuba when he was a teenager not speaking English. And I grew up here speaking Spanglish. That's the world in which I grew up, and that's a world in which a lot of second generation immigrants find themselves.

When dealing with music, the personal is the political, and always has been.

I know why the best blues artist comes from Mississippi," Hooker told an interviewer from Melody Maker in 1964. "Because it's the worst state. You have the blues all right if you're down in Mississippi.

As recently as the twentieth century, some cultures retained religious prohibitions asserting the "uncleanliness" of believers eating at the same table as musicians.

Western musicians had to choose between creating sounds and playing notes—and they opted for the latter. But African musicians never got enlightened (or is corrupted the better word?) by Pythagorean thinking.

Maybe we need an injection of Africanized soundscapes—let's even call it a new jazz revolution!—all over again.

T]he piano was to Harlem what brass bands had been to New Orleans. The instrument represented conflicting possibilities -- a pathway for assimilating traditional highbrow culture, a calling card of lowbrow nightlife, a symbol of middle-class prosperity, or, quite simply, a means of making a living.

I like the Indian casino names - Pechangas - Morongos. They all sound like women's breasts.

The self-love and self-trust our culture proffers always turns the heart away from God.

I like England more than I did when I left. It's become a bit of a better country in the last ten years, in the attitude of it. A bit more Americanized, which is both good and bad. At least when you order a cup of coffee they don't give you a hard time.

my mind was consumed with the idea of purdah. From behind it no call for help could be heard. An abandoned species was trapped in a forbidden world. Everything corrupt happened under the shroud, when it was off a faceless and nameless woman appeared.

The Pakistani elite has not even observed, leave alone adopted the crucial aspects of modem western culture, whereby eighty percent of their problems were resolved through social welfare. Our people absorb their flair for fashions and their methods of entertainment, whereas the basics by which the West is exemplary remain unnoticed. They should see them plumbing, painting, cooking and struggling very hard to earn a living.

I spent 13 years in Spain, and when you spend that amount of time somewhere, it has a deep influence on you.

My wife would like to live in Spain; I'd like to live in Italy.

The thought of playing in Spain did whet my appetite - playing in a new country and everything that comes with it.

In Spain, people understand football is a fun game, and enjoyment comes first. After that, business follows.

Obviously, Spain is my home, and I have everything here - family, friends - but I'm very happy in England, with the way of life we have and with English football.

The Premier League is different to Spain.

If I went to Spain and lived there for five years, I'm not going to play for Spain. For me an English player should play for England, really.

I owe everything to Spain - that's where I learned to write, to read, and to play football.

I was in Spain, with Mallorca and Getafe, which were exceptional experiences.

I know Spain football very well, because I've always been interested in it, even after I left Spain.

I feel really proud of my career - more here in England than in Spain. There are different mentalities. Here the people respect you.