Quotes About Culture

There was always a lot of American music in England until, obviously when the Beatles came around, then there was a shift towards English music, but before then American music was the main thing...

Music is a fundamental human right

I was taken in by the bravado and the sounds of Mexico... not so much the music, but the spirit.

When you get to readin' about where the music and John Steinbeck and all those people like that come from, the further you go the more interesting it becomes.

L.A. to me feels like music industry, and Nashville to me feels like music community.

Dear Hip Hop, we can't scream 'murder, misogyny, lawlessness' in our music & then turn around and ask for equality & justice.

The function of pop music is to be consumed.

I'd love to start some movements. What I'm tired of is irony, and sarcasm, and music/movies/what have you, not having the guts to mean anything.

Country music has become the music that best represents the reality of American life.

A lot of people think that the music was responsible for a lot of changes in the Sixties, but I think the music came out of it. The music wouldnt have happened without the social changes.

Rap has been a path between cultures in the best tradition of popular music.

Classical music is an unbroken, living tradition that goes back over 1,000 years, and every one of those years has had something unique and powerful to say to us about what it's like to be alive.

Elvis Presley is all there is. There just ain't no more. Everything starts and ends with Elvis. He wrote the book. He is everything to do and not to do in the music business.

A lot that was happening in 2005, 2006, good and bad, the beats reflected it. It was a lot of money around. People was making music to throw money to.

Popular music is popular because a lot of people like it.

Music and art and culture is escapism, and escapism sometimes is healthy for people to get away from reality. The problem is when they stay there.

To most white people, jazz means black and jazz means dirt, and that's not what I play. I play black classical music.

I can't really say why everyone loves Bob Wills' music, but I have yet to meet a person who didn't like it.

I love the dancing and the music from Latin cultures. I went to a Flamenco show in Spain once, and it completely took my breath away!

When Punk Rock happened, it created an opening in the culture... it made it ok to think you could play music, even though you had no musical training.

When I'd tell people I like country music they'd get this look on their faces. People were kind of ashamed of country.

Hip Hop was supposed to be this new thing that had no boundaries and was so different to everyday music. As long as it has soul to it, hip hop can live on.

For real, some of my favorite music is Mexican. It's something about the bassline and the drumming. I can't even speak Spanish, but that's probably why I like it so much.

We probably, as primitive people, made music before we actually had a language, and that's where language comes from.