Quotes About Culture

I'm concerned a little bit with the culture of celebrating the fundraise. My dad taught me that when you borrow money it's the worst day of your life.

That one never need to look beyond the love of money for explanation of human behavior is one of the most jealously guarded simplification of our culture.

No gentleman ever has any money.

Pop music is created by repression - and then the system takes it and makes even more money with it!

Only the powerless live in a money culture and know nothing about money.

It's vulgar, coming from where I do, to talk about money.

After the collapse of Wall Street in the 1920s, the culture stopped being all about money, and the country survived and ultimately flourished.

I've always argued, unsuccessfully, that there's no point in giving money to the arts unless you educate people in them.

Unfortunately, I think music videos are a dying breed because there is no money in them.

I feel like there are so few girls in New York like that anymore, who are not focused on getting a man with money.

I am in an age group where it is rude to discuss money, and now it is all anyone cares about.

First of all, what in this world does not revolve around money? But money is a big part of film, unlike a lot of other art forms.

Sophisticated people invest their money in stock portfolios. Rednecks invest their money in commemorative plates.

Now people look at 'The Scream' or Van Gogh's 'Irises' or a Picasso and see its new content: money. Auction houses inherently equate capital with value.

There's good stuff going on in modern pop music, but a lot of it is really materialistic and only about money.

There were a lot of great things you could go and hear for very little money at the time [ '80s]. Mike Stern is still playing at the 55 Bar on Mondays or Wednesdays.

We've become a culture where earning money doesn't entitle you to it, but wanting it does. That is the essence of redistribution.

There isn't a class structure in Nigeria, there's a tribal structure and prestige as far as money is concerned.

I have no religion, but I can't escape being extremely Jewish ethnically - that is, culturally. In other words, I'm not religious, but I worry and I'm neurotic. And I'm very good with money.

I ain't calling me God. I'm just doing my part on where I think hip hop should go. I think hip hop should be about more money, crazier sounds, different beats.

The disasteris not the money, although the money will be missed. The disaster is the disrespect--this belief that the arts are dispensable, that they're not critical to a culture's existence.

Where any view of money exists, art cannot be carried on.

Countries have lost their culture because what they wanted was money. Money became the running theme in every country and culture was sacrificed.

The way of the consumerist culture is to spend so much energy chasing happiness that it has none left to be happy.