Quotes About Culture

If you want to know about the Sixties, play the music of The Beatles.

If by noise you mean uncomfortable sound, then pop music is noise to me.

Modern music is people who can't think signing artists who can't write songs to make records for people who can't hear.

The reason music became so powerful to our generation is that it's art you can consume in your car, and we were driving around a lot.

I grew up overseas in Indonesia, and my school had a great art, music, and theatre program.

A hundred years from now, people will listen to the music of the Beatles the same way we listen to Mozart.

That.s what Jazz music is all about.We started the Messengers because somebody had to mind the store for jazz.No America--no Jazz. It is the only culture that America has brought forth.

You will be most readily cured of vanity or presumption by studying the history of music, and by hearing the master pieces which have been produced at different periods.

Explicit material is available in a variety of forums - from popular music to television to the Internet.

Although I miss my family and friends when I'm away from Amsterdam, I've never had that feeling of missing a city like I have with New Orleans. Especially for the music.

I don't mind what the market is, but why is it vapid? If they're such a bunch of idiots, why don't you show them good music instead? They're not going to know the difference.

I don't believe in sampling some Tibetan music just to make it sound groovy, but you do your homework, you understand what you're doing with it.

The English may not like music, but they absolutely love the noise it makes.

When I think about country music, I think about America.

Mardi Gras is the love of life. It is the harmonic convergence of our food, our music, our creativity, our eccentricity, our neighborhoods, and our joy of living. All at once.

The thing about Nashville is, it's not just country music...There's rock & roll, there's every kind of music. It's just a music town...There's so much fun stuff to get in to.

To me, country music tells a story about, and deals with, the way people live their lives and what they do.

For some young people, their first experience ever hearing punk rock music was playing the Green Bay Packers on 'Madden'.

Teen pop will never die as long as there are teens and popular music. It just takes a different head.

It doesn't matter the kind of music, it doesn't matter whether it's a cowboy hat or a yarmulke. I don't care if it's outer space or pop, the spirit is the same.

As far as I'm concerned, blues and jazz are the great American contributions to music.

My music is in young people's lives because it's so much a part of their parents' lives.

Being British, I don't really have a way of expressing myself in conversation. Music transcends language.

I think folk music helps reinforce your sense of history. An old song makes you think of times gone by.