Quotes About Culture

The art of music above all the other arts is the expression of the soul of a nation.

I don't ever balk at being considered a Motown person, because Motown is the greatest musical event that ever happened in the history of music

It is quite untrue that British people don't appreciate music. They may not understand it but they absolutely love the noise it makes.

What's New Orleans without music? And what's music without dancing?

It takes an intelligent ear to listen to Jazz.

Music is being treated as one big karaoke machine.

Jazz is a word they use to sell our music, but to me that word does not exist.

Music is part of being human.

I like this town, it's really great. They've put me in The Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame. This town is about music. It's about the kind of music I like.

Art and music are the vehicle for the zeitgeist.

Music is one of the ways we can achieve a kind of shorthand to understand each other.

If you think of music as a universal language, it still has some very powerful dialects.

Music must serve a purpose; it must be a part of something larger than itself, a part of humanity.

I realised a long time ago that instrumental music speaks a lot more clearly than English, Spanish, Yiddish, Swahili, any other language. Pure melody goes outside time.

Music… is a memory bank for finding one's way about the world.

Violence existed before our music was even suggested.

A big part of country music is a way of life, at least from my standpoint. That's how I craft my music from my own life experiences.

African music, though very old, is always being rediscovered in the West.

Has it struck you that the music which is regarded as the most sublime in western civilization, which is the music of Bach, is called baroque?

Music is a defining element of character.

Electro is today's disco - making electronic music not for the sake of selling it but for sharing it and touring around the world D.J.-ing.

We have always created - music, literature, art, dance. The art around us - or lack of it - may be a measure of how we're doing as individuals and as a civilization, so maybe we should be worried.

White folks hear the blues come out, but they don't know how it got there.

Reggae music is simple music - but it's from the heart. Just as people need water to drink, people also need music. If it is true music, the people will be drawn to it.