Quotes About Culture

One thing that is not to be underestimated is American culture's influence on the rest of the world.

Capacity of human societies both to absorb and to discard cultures is much underestimated.

The challenge is always around culture. I think that's often underestimated because people focus on the substance and the practical; soft steps go missing.

Undergraduate life on college campuses tends in the direction of neopagan excess.

I was an English major in college who concentrated in African-American literature and culture. So I read quite a few slave narratives and stories of escape, and I grew up in Ohio, which was a common stop on the Underground Railroad.

There is kind of an underground conservative movement in Hollywood, really.

We were the underground reporters.

I love hip hop music and would do anything to help the culture blow up in China because it's been so underground. I just want people know how good this culture is, how good the music is, and how it can change your life.

I know Diplo knows a lot about underground music culture - he was one of the people to put me onto music like that when I used to listen to the Mad Decent Mixes. It was like, 'Oh, he knows what I want.'

Hip-hop is like underground. I don't know if hip-hop exists anymore. I don't know if it does.

The Americans have their way of talking, their way of dressing, their way of doing things, and we have ours. That's why this whole U.K. underground thing has become sick, because everyone has finally said, 'Yeah, yeah, Drake is sick - but hang on, we are too.'

Preppy never goes away. It just has its moment every 15 years, and then it goes back underground.

I got involved in the underground world known as ballroom culture, and I used to walk a category called 'face,' and it was a very heavily Latino culture - it's black and Latino - and they used to call me 'cara,' which means face in Spanish, so I started putting 'cara' on everything: hats, jackets.

Grime's always been big at festivals. Grime's always had an underground crew.

Although drag has a long cultural history in America, it remained largely underground till the late 1980s.

We're not really an underground band anymore, and we're not a mainstream band, either.

I feel like artists like Three 6 Mafia and 8 Ball and MJG reached a point in their careers where they were hot and underground.

I'm usually bored with both gangsta rappers and underground ones, too.

On 'Underground,' we had used contemporary music to pull you into the present and not just look at it as a portrait on the wall and in the past.

Wrestling in Australia is big, but it's kind of underground.

When I came up in a band - not just in a band, but a kind of underground DIY community - there was such a clear cut distinction between what pop was and what not pop was in very simplistic terms.

We been bubblin' in the Los Angeles underground for years.

That's just the way the world's going - everything has to be so instantly commercial that it kills anything that's a little bit underground instantly.

Everything's so commercialised it shuts down the underground.