Quotes About Culture

The only outlet in mainstream culture for classical and more experimental music to be heard is through movie soundtracks, and they're such a wonderful display of emotion. I think the guy that did that best is Stanley Kubrick, working with Wendy Carlos who is an electronic composer.

That's what they hired me to do in Washington, change a little bit of the culture, try to win a Stanley Cup.

You were cool if you had on a pair of Air Force 1s. It's still a staple for me while on tour.

'Goodnight Moon' is a staple of any nursery bookshelf. So, too, are 'Harold and the Purple Crayon' and 'Madeline.' These books are just as much a part of mainstream reading culture as 'The Catcher in the Rye,' and they are passed down from generation to generation.

Many of America's historical cornbreads were staple breads for people who didn't have many other options.

I'm a 90s child and I have grown up on a staple diet of David Dhawan films, Baazigar, Rangeela and Dil Chahta Hai.

Cheese was the staple. Bread you brought from home. The Schnaps came later. At the end of the week when people got paid, that's when you got your Schnaps, lots of it, five Pfennige a shot.

Women in country music have always been a staple and always been important.

I'm Anna May Wong. I come from old Hong Kong. But now I'm a Hollywood star.

Disco deserved a better name, a beautiful name because it was a beautiful art form. It made the consumer beautiful. The consumer was the star.

In Australia, I didn't think that there was much of a chance for me to become a singer - especially to become a K-pop star.

There is a religion around 'Star Wars' that is different than even the fanaticism around comic books and other media.

In terms of the film itself, there was nothing much very new about 'Star Wars.' 'Star Wars' was a trailblazer for the kind of monumentalist pastiche which has become standard in a homogeneous Hollywood blockbuster culture that, perhaps more than any other film, 'Star Wars' played a role in inventing.

Star Wars' is so rich and it seems crazy that everyone's, like, a white male guy. That's due to the 1970s and the fact that it was shot in Britain, but I was very lucky: I'm British, I grew up in England, and I got to see myself represented in a film.

Starbucks represents something beyond a cup of coffee.

Before Starbucks, there wasn't as much of a coffeehouse routine; we generally drank really cruddy diner coffee.

Starbucks has a role and a meaningful relationship with people that is not only about the coffee.

Sometimes when you're in different countries, everything has become so homogenised and there's a Starbucks and McDonald's everywhere, and you could feel like you're in Florida. But in Japan, you know you're there.

Los Angeles fashion is the Starbucks of the modeling world.

There is something romantic about the world being a diverse place, where every place has a Starbucks and Denny's.

It used to be you could just write vaguely conservative things while running a Starbucks - now, you can't.

I grew up in Chennai and was very much influenced by Rajinikant's stardom and importance of cinema in Tamil culture.

I'm sad to say that stardom is a commodity in our culture.

Portugal has amazing seafood with all the eyeballs staring back at you.