Quotes About Culture

Jazz does not belong to one race or culture, but is a gift that America has given the world.

I think todays music absolutely stinks. I really do mean that.

They flat their fifths, we drink ours.

Music knows no barrier of age or culture. It isn't about being politically correct or even making a statement. Music is what appeals to the ears and touches your soul.

Blues music is becoming more and more popular than it ever was. I'm always meeting people on the road that are really young, and are guitar players.... male and female.

Jazz came to America three hundred years ago in chains.

The history of a people are found in its songs.

Musical compositions, it should be remembered, do not inhabit certain countries, certain museums, like paintings and statues. The Mozart Quintet is not shut up in Salzburg: I have it in my pocket.

Mime, like music, knows neither borders nor nationalities.

Everybody loves classical music they just don't know about it yet.

If children are not introduced to music at an early age, I believe something fundamental is actually being taken from them.

If the King loves music, it is well with the land.

I see myself as a hip-hop artist, but I never wanted to make music for a specifically white audience. Thats not what I grew up around.

In the Negro melodies of America I find all that is needed for a great and noble school of music.

There's certain things in life that I love. One is architecture. And music, culture, food, people. New Orleans has all of that.

Those who want to know what sound goes into my music should come to NY and open their ears.

I wanna show that gospel, country, blues, rhythm and blues, jazz, rock 'n' roll are all just really one thing. Those are the American music and that is the American culture.

House Music isn't black or white. It just is. It feels good & it feels right.

School curricula that ignore the arts produce highly educated Barbarians

Jamaica's probably the most dominant island as far as influence goes, as far as music and dancing and culture.

It's like soul music, isn't it all soul music? Otherwise what is it, non-soul music? I-have-no-soul music? Soulless music? People need to put a name on something to identify it, and I understand it.

It is evidently known, beyond contradiction, that New Orleans is the cradle of Jazz and I, myself, happened to be the creator in the year 1902.

Music happens to be an art form that transcends language.

I wouldn't say rock & roll is dead but the current music made by young people isn't really rock & roll.