Quotes About Culture

If military movies were automatically successful we'd make nothing but military movies. But seriously, patriotism is one thing that all Americans have in common.

People are drawn to radical Islam because they feel their traditional ways of life threatened by the influx of KFC and Hollywood movies and the like.

Most books and movies that are handed to teenagers are filled with stereotypes.

If you look at the range of Hollywood movies playing in most cities in the developing world, you'd hate the America they portray, too.

All those pseudo-Hollywood movies set nowhere, with everybody good looking and having great physique - that's not working any more.

Sure, I watched a lot of Hollywood movies. Maybe I've seen more Hollywood movies than French movies

It's like everybody is obsessed with Hollywood movies worldwide. And even though everybody hates the Americans, they're still watching American movies.

Even I haven't downed enough L.A. Kool-Aid to believe that somehow Hollywood movies are an overt instrument of morality.

Film is one if three universal languages, the other two: mathematics and music.

Once I fix what kids watch, I'll be moving on to everything else.

Even though we can't communicate using the same language, we use music instead.

You cannot sing African music in proper English

I've got to where I am in life not because of something I brought to the world but through something I found - the wealth of African culture.

Jazz is the favorite music [of America]. It is a type of music invented by [American] Blacks to please their primitive tendencies and desire for noise.

If you have to ask what jazz is, you'll never know.

I think those who say that you can't tango if you are not Argentine are mistaken. Tango was an immigrant music... so it does not have a nationality. It's only passport is feeling.

Music and art are the guiding lights of the world.

I kept my culture. I kept the music of my roots. Through my music I became this voice and image of Africa and the people without even realising.

And there's some Latino music I like, and some reggae music.

Others are keen to see if natives other than us live better than we do, without heat in pipes, ice in boxes, sunshine in bulbs, music on disks, or images gliding over a pale screen.

I have strong sentiments toward Iran, since I distinguish between the Iranian regime and the Iranian people. I highly esteem Iranian music and culture.

To jazz, or not to jazz, there is no question!

Music played a large role in the survival of the black people in America — that and a sense of humor that just couldn't be enslaved.

The roots of Cuban music are in my head.