Quotes About Culture

Rock & roll is a type of sensuous music unfit for impressionable minds.

Our problem is that sound is not important in our culture. We know the world from the visual, not from the other senses. I had to be taught other ways of understanding.

I think there is no culture in which music is not very important and central. That's why I think of us as a sort of musical species.

Rap actually comes out of punk rock, not black music.

I want people to hear musicians like Joe Cuba. He has done things to whole masses of Puerto Rican people. The music is fantastic and important.

Music is a language, a universal language.

When's the last time you walked by a pub in Dublin and heard Irish music? When's the last time you ordered a coffee and heard an Irish accent?

New York City is a notoriously hard market to perform country music in.

Taking people on a journey is the fundamental element of underground dance music. I don't sell records.

As the Trump presidency goes on, there will be a transcendency of power and culture and vision from the music scene, the art world that will find a voice and give hope to us all.

Every now and again, the alternative culture is cherished by the mainstream for what it is, rather than how it should be, like the mainstream popular music.

Music has always been transnational; people pick up whatever interests them, and certainly a lot of classical music has absorbed influences from all over the world.

I want to investigate different cultures, to see how their identities and values affect their music. It's one way I can get to know our world, at least to a certain depth.

I think it's real important that people understand where the music comes from. If you can see where the music comes from, you can also see the future. It gives you a trajectory.

One thing that I always liked about fashion was that it was tied in with music and art and film.

The good thing, really, is that electronic music started as a fringe subculture, and now it's the biggest youth culture in the world. People pretty much everywhere go crazy for electronic music.

Rastafari not a culture, it's a reality.

Reggae is music of love. It has joy and pain, but it feels good.

Holland is to dance music what Nashville is to country.

If one should desire to know whether a kingdom is well governed, if its morals are good or bad, the quality of its music will furnish the answer.

I've always loved black culture; I don't know any other way to put it. Since I was a kid I loved music and early jazz, Sly and the Family Stone.

Theres two kinds of music: black soul music, and the white imitation thereof.

Rap is the only interesting music left - it's the only genre that's still pushing itself, and experimenting in a way that I find exciting.

Old music used to mean something. There is none of that today.