Quotes About Culture

My parents are really open-minded, but with their own daughter, it's not the same thing.

We Europeans really have the picture of this very open-minded Australia.

Africa is my continent. It is where I opened my eyes.

Ricky Martin just kind of opened a big door, but it's always been around. Latin artists have always been there, but some of them were never doing it in the U.S.

I think - I know - the normalization of drag and drag culture has definitely opened up people's minds in some parts of the world.

I think PSY opened a lot of doors for K-pop artists.

Samuel Coleridge-Taylor has opened my eyes in many ways.

It's complicated for my music to be accepted, even in Lebanon and the Arabic world - I sing in Arabic, but there's no lute, no classical instruments. Maybe with the Internet opening things up, things will change.

I have friends in France who are artists. I go to gallery openings and things like that.

I've heard that almost all the people crowding around the big art openings barely look at the work on display and are just there to hobnob. Nothing wrong with that, except that none of them ever come back to look at the art - but they will tell everyone, and actually believe, that they have seen the exhibition.

Hip-hop is the people. What the people are moving toward is what hip-hop is. I think people are moving toward a freer way of thinking. Openness.

Britain is characterized not just by its independence but, above all, by its openness.

I love the American openness and use of language; I just don't know how to be that way.

I think that Atlanta has this huge well of black culture and openness to share all the things that we have made there.

We should be biased toward action. We are trying to be a nimble and cohesive culture where people can be heard and there is openness and innovation.

I was lucky enough to grow up in a house where we listened to all kinds of music. We listened to Haitian, hip hop, soul, classical jazz, gospel and Cuban music, to name a few. When you have access to that as a child, it just opens up your world.

Why does there exist a global American entertainment industry, but there isn't an equivalent coming from France or Italy? This is the case simply because the English language opens the whole world to the American cinema.

Books give us insight into other people, other cultures. They make us laugh. They make us think. If they are really good, they make us believe that we are better for having read them. You don't read a book - you experience it. Every story opens up a new world.

The opera is to music what a bawdy house is to a cathedral.

The opera always loses money. That's as it should be. Opera has no business making money.

In the '80s, everyone wanted to be in opera. It was groovy.

Opera is a beautiful and important diversion for me.

Music and opera are a big part of my life.

Mostly what I listen to when I turn on my little iPod is opera.