Quotes About Culture

Music and dance is universal, and I want to break borders and represent.

I'd like to see people pay attention to the science of hip hop. The knowledge part, the political side of what hip hop could do, or where hip hop is gonna go. I always say it's gonna become universal as we become a galactic union.

I'm painting the paintings that I want to see in museums. And I'm hopefully presenting them in a way that's universal enough that they become representative of something different than just a black body on a canvas.

In terms of helping people understand and know each other a little better, music is universal - universal and transporting.

There is something very very special, universal and easily identifiable among all Jews; it is beyond territory, it is something we all have in common.

I have played Polynesian. I have played an Arabian girl. I played an East Indian girl. And what was so confusing about that, which I mention in my book, is that I assumed I had to have an accent. Nobody said anything, so I made up what I call the universal ethnic accent, and they all sounded alike. It didn't matter who I was playing.

The language of football is universal. You don't need to speak the local lingo in order to be able to communicate with a ball.

That's why I felt so at home when I went to Africa. It didn't matter that I was halfway around the world in a foreign country, because all those elements are universal. And I think that's one thing about my work: It's universal.

Music is truly universal and has no boundaries.

Shakespeare is universal.

That's the beauty of art: art is universal.

Storytelling is a universal: every culture does it. There's a reason our religious books aren't simply a list of shall-and-shall-nots. Morals and teachings are contained in stories, which are studied, dissected, and passed down; we remember stories in a way we don't remember lists of facts.

Cooking is one of those things that is universal to people. And any time you can teach somebody a way to connect with all people, there's so much joy in it. And it is always going to be exciting.

The stories from Iran's present and past are reminders that freedom, democracy and human rights, or fundamentalism, fascism and terrorism are not geographically and culturally determined, but universal.

In England, literary pretence is more universal than elsewhere from our method of education.

Hollywood... was the place where the United States perpetrated itself as a universal dream and put the dream into mass production.

It is also, I would guess, a universal that in all societies people value respectability granted to them.

Though we explore in a culturally-conditioned way, the reality we sketch is universal.

The mathematics of rhythm are universal. They don't belong to any particular culture.

I think people are universal.

The universal human laws - need, love for the beloved, fear, hunger, periodic exaltation, the kindness that rises up naturally in the absence of hunger/fear/pain - are constant, predictable, reliable, universal, and are merely ornamented with the details of local culture.

A writer is justly called 'universal' when he is understood within the limits of his civilization, though that be bounded by a country or an age.

When I speak of artistic universals, I am not denying the enormous role played by culture. Obviously culture plays a tremendous role, otherwise you wouldn't have different artistic styles - but it doesn't follow that art is completely idiosyncratic and arbitrary, either, or that there are no universal laws.

I think I'm making music that's pretty universal.