Quotes About Culture

You cannot act a color. Do not tell me I'm acting black, because I'm not. I'm acting whatever you want to call it - urban. I don't even have a name for it. I just call it 'me.'

I always thought my big brother was the coolest. We were very close when I was young, and we still are in many ways! He was a very open-minded, urban guy with an outdoorsy edge. He is mostly responsible for exposing me to art and culture.

My guitar playing is a synthesis of traditional American acoustic style and Urban Pop and R&B.

In Cardiff, I've heard a number of accent mixes that weren't previously heard before such as Cardiff-Arabic and Cardiff-Hindi. This pattern is repeating itself in many urban communities across the U.K.; people are especially keen to develop a strong sense of local identity.

Urban music in the Spanish-language is a force to be reckoned with, there's truly something for everyone in it.

I really didn't try to make an effort to make urban music, but I am a product of my inspirations.

We had a certain kind of really big prestige among, I suppose not just intellectual folk, but a sort of nice middle class intelligent folk of a very urban nature.

I come from a specific tradition of sociology, which is urban ethnography.

There's an energy in an urban core that you just don't get anywhere else.

One of the things that sells music is when the artist is looked at as someone who's come up from the streets. Not just any streets, but the toughest, meanest streets of the urban ghetto. And that's called 'street credibility.'

I come from a young, hip-hop, urban world.

Everyone's looking to the urban scene for inspiration now.

I am hopeful that the concept of 'cultural appropriation' is a passing fad: people with different backgrounds rubbing up against each other and exchanging ideas and practices is self-evidently one of the most productive, fascinating aspects of modern urban life.

The effect of music on fashion has been immense, especially hip-hop and urban music.

Bankers cannot afford to be concerned with only the economic aspects of projects. There may be serious implications on the natural environment, the urban environment, on human culture.

More often than what you're suggesting, I find people are surprised that I have an urban side to me.

Members of the Academy are mostly urban people. We are an urban nation. We are not a rural nation. It's not easy even to get a rural story made.

If you are in Mountain View, you don't resonate with the needs of urban dwellers. Tumblr couldn't have emerged in Sunnyvale.

If you just want instant cool and you don't want to pay a whole lot, just go to Urban Outfitters.

I don't like the word 'urban' because I think it's a bit of a generalisation and they use it to class music, but I don't think it's a word that necessarily classes music.

It's common for cultural shifts to start with young, urban adopters before going mainstream.

When our customer leaves Urban Outfitters, the Main Line is the type of place where more of them go than don't.

I grew up in Harlem in New York, very rough, urban environment, and so what I found is that, if I can have kids travel to different places, countries, areas, it can expand their minds.

I'm an urban person.