Quotes About Culture

When you turn your team upside down and try to figure out what the culture of the team is, you take the greatest risk a team can take.

My mother was from upstate New York; she's of Irish and German descent. My father was from Ghana.

'Upstream Color' in particular, it's got to infect culture at some level in order to have a life of its own. Then it'll be judged, and it'll either live or it won't by its own merit, and history will decide whether it's relevant however long into the future. I think that's more than enough to hope for.

I think we're very uptight in America. You have to remember that we're descended from Puritans. Whether or not the country is now composed of immigrants, our culture as American really begins with the landing of the Pilgrims and a puritanical view of things.

The whole art of flirting has simply disappeared. This probably will do further damage. If we're going to become so uptight that we can't say nice things to each other, then we've had it!

You know, Americans think that they're such progessive and free thinkers, but we're as uptight as any other country when it comes to speech and language and content.

I felt black. I was as far as I was concerned. And I wanted to be black for lots of reasons. They were better musicians, they were better athletes, they were not uptight about sex, and they knew how to enjoy life better than most people.

My general take on American music since 1969 is that it's just getting stiffer and people are getting more uptight - audience, performance, and palace guard.

I grew up in Northern California, so the hippies were still around. My father and mother were very Republican, very strait-laced and very uptight, but my uncles were hippies.

I was seeing on the ground floor that labels weren't investing in females, and it trickled upward because I was in radio with none to play. I know that I can't change today, but what I can do is work on the culture for tomorrow.

I've had a lifelong obsession with urban legends and American folklore.

I don't quite know how the urban music category came about, but I suspect it had something to do with trying to maximise sales.

Porridge and the urban lifestyle don't mix well.

In 1960, it was still - no nostalgia here - an age when you could leave your door unlocked even in urban neighborhoods.

Before it became a ubiquitous part of urban life, Starbucks was, in most American cities, a radically new idea.

When the written and spoken word is censored, the urban landscape becomes a nation's only physical link to the past.

I really like the whole urban, hip-hop kind of thing.

The whole world is covered in graffiti. No one cares. It's just part of urban noise.

'Recreative' is a word that I invented because in urban culture, with colloquialism, we invent so many slangs. I don't like the way that 'recreational' sounds - I don't like to say I do a lot of 'recreational' reading. I like to say that I read 'recreatively.' I do a lot of 'recreative' reading.

No place is perfect, but I admire Oahu for its offering of the tropical and the urban, and then its Asian-inflected culture and cuisines.

It's an honor for me to represent urban music, reggaeton, trap and hip-hop.

There's no reason that there has to be a fringe network that illuminates an urban or a multiethnic experience.

Richard Pryor introduced me to the world of the inner city, and the urban world, and did it hysterically. My favorite comedian, even though we work 180 degrees differently, but funny is funny is funny.

In urban culture, Larry Davis is something of a legend.