Quotes About Culture

'Straight Outta Compton' was such a great movie, and obviously, I'm in the music business, so getting to see that piece of history was amazing, and it was an incredible movie.

There is music out there that is commercially driven, whether you like it or not. That's a peculiarly American innovation. We innovated the commercial music business.

One of the good things about globalization is it has created a single international music community, and I feel very much part of it.

A lot of my fans, and a lot of country music fans, they still wear boots.

I'm proud of my roots. There are not many Asians in the music industry so it's important for me to tell people where I'm from.

I just look at capitalizing on everything that I feel like G.O.O.D. Music brings to the music industry, our following, and the culture. First of all, we have incredible artists. It's definitely about getting those albums out in a very manicured fashion.

I used to DJ in Atlanta, and that's how I kind of got into the music industry.

The Austin music scene is the reason why so many of them moved here.

Most of my friends are from the music scene.

I'm from Louisiana, and that's where I got my start, in Cajun music. There's a huge music scene down there centered around our culture. Those are people that are not making music for a living. They are making music for the fun of it. And I think that's the best way I could have been introduced to music.

Atlanta is a huge part of the music scene and a large part of Hollywood now.

I've known about hip-hop for a long time. The first time it intrigued me was when I saw this music video by Tyga on television. I was intrigued by the whole aesthetic. It was very unique.

The Blind Boys are truly the deepest well of American musical heritage you can discover.

After a foreign invasion, there has to be a sort of feeling of musical inadequacy in the country.

I have a very musical family from my Scottish roots.

'My Country, My Music' is about bringing music in languages like Tamil, Telegu, Kannada, Malyalam, and Marathi together. It's about bringing musical genres together, different scenarios in which music is displayed in our country in one show.

What is jazz? It, It's almost like asking, What is French? Jazz is a musical language. It's a musical dialect that actually embodies the spirit of America.

I'd love to do a musical on the lines of 'Salangai Oli,' 'Sankarabharanam' and 'Sindhu Bhairavi.'

Macon has such a rich musical history - and the state of Georgia, as well.

In every interview I've got to explain something about being white but still being into hip hop. It's gone way beyond the musical aspect of the business. And I'm as critical about music as everybody else is.

Soul has no musical geographical or racial boundaries.

So what I'm trying to say is from a musical aspect for anybody to say that whatever they're doing in Florida is not Hip Hop or whatever they're doing in LA is not Hip Hop, who are these people to say that?

I come from a place where there's a lot of musical families.

I don't think there's a defined contemporary American musical, do you?