Quotes About Culture

Musical theater is an American genre. It started really, in America, as a combination of jazz and operetta; most of the great musical theater writers in the golden era are American. I think that to do a musical is a very American thing to me.

Right now, musically I'm inspired by everyday people.

I think the Congolese music is more important in the African community that Rwandan. You know, Rwanda is not musically really important in Africa. It's interesting, of course. But Congolese rumba was so huge in Africa that everybody was inspired by it.

You know Manchester is always a bit of a hard place for people coming from London, just with all the history. Manchester has this immensely huge and healthy history musically.

Reggeton has changed very much, musically. It has evolved. The artists have also evolved.

I know they call it the British Invasion, but musically, I call it the British Infusion.

I've been hearing what a lot of people been doing and what a lot of people been putting out musically, I've been listening.

I'm not gay, so I don't know much about Broadway musicals.

I grew up in a time when the only musicals were animated musicals because nobody wanted to see people to break into song.

I watch a lot of live music, and I love the theatre, especially musicals.

Of course I've done musicals here in London.

I like the fact that some of your favorite Broadway musicals are not made into movies.

I'm not a fan of musicals. Never have been.

But I wish they would make a musical of some kind. I miss musicals so much. You don't see them anymore.

In the Depression, big musicals made a comeback.

We didn't go to Broadway musicals when I was growing up; it was too expensive.

I would love for musicals to come back on the screen.

This is our culture, and I don't care who the musician is, if he avoids black people, then he is scared of something. He doesn't have confidence in himself or else he doesn't believe in what he's doing.

As a Latin musician, I understand that there are so many places where people don't know who I am. My albums never came out in Australia or Japan.

With cab drivers, I always say I'm from Brazil. I don't say I'm from Israel. It's happened more than once that someone is blaming me for the government's policy. And I say, 'Listen, I live here. I'm a musician. I don't call the shots.'

I am a Slavic musician and it is deeply inside of me.

The artist is the consciousness of society... but musicians' role is very special.

I'd been watching documentaries about early rock where white artists took 'race records' from blues and soul musicians to achieve mass appeal. I wanted to flip that and do an EP covering only white artists.

Musicians have been political literally since people were writing songs.