Quotes About Culture

Syncopations are no indication of light or trashy music, and to shy bricks at 'hateful ragtime' no longer passes for musical culture.

Music is all about transporting people, speaking a language which languages fail to express.

Cuba is such a beautiful country, and everywhere you go, there's music and people dancing - especially in Havana.

I'm preparing for a multimedia theater piece, Airport Music, that's coming up in New York City.

To me our music is like Jamaican stuff - if they can't hear it, they're not supposed to hear it. It's not for them if they can't understand it.

If you can imagine a man having a vasectomy without anesthetic to the sound of frantic sitar-playing, you will have some idea of what popular Turkish music is like.

Three films a day, three books a week and records of great music would be enough to make me happy to the day I die.

As long as the music stayed hot and important and good, that there would always be a reason for 'Soul Train'

I have considered rap music stars, and there is one in my new book, Lovers and Players, and there is also a hip-hop music mogul who I think you will like a lot.

Latin music has many international influences - pop, rock, country, Brazilian sounds, and alternative styles.

In Hungary all native music, in its origin, is divided naturally into melody destined for song or melody for the dance.

Music is...a fundamental way of expressing our humanity - and it is often our best medicine.

When I was a kid growing up in the '60s, music was an outlet for enlightenment, frustration, rebellion. It was more about individualism. Today it's just like a big business.

The blues will always be because the blues are the roots of all American music.

My dad's Irish music was such a huge influence.

I grew up with reggae music.

Ask anyone. If it hadn't been for Elvis, I don't know where popular music would be. He was the one that started it all off, and he was definitely the start of it for me.

I never taught people where to step on '2', because when I learned how to dance there was no '2'. We just danced to the music.

Man needs music, literature, and painting - all those oases of perfection that make up art - to compensate for the rudeness and materialism of life.

Popularity has everything to do with business and nothing to do with music.

I was a big fan of Middle Eastern elements of music and experimental electronic and tribal sounds.

Music is just something that explains people lives for them - that's what people call roots

I'm just trying to tell a good story and make thought-provoking, entertaining films. I just try and draw upon the great culture we have as a people, from music, novels, the streets.

I think popular music in this country is one of the few things in the twentieth century that have made giant strides in reverse.