Quotes About Culture

Trance had become a dirty word. Thanks to Ian Van Dahl, Lasgo, Flip 'N' Fill and DJ Sammy, a generation of kids has grown up thinking trance is the shittiest music since country and western.

Style as a concept has been hijacked to mean elite, refined and expensive when it should be thought of as a basic expression of life in much the same way as we all identify with music or speech.

I love that period, between the '20s and the '60s. I love doing period pieces, and those eras are my favorite period in time, music wise, and the elegance and the way of being.

I'm homeless, in a funny way. My culture I think is completely rooted in German 19th century music I suppose.

I'm sorry, I don't listen to country music.

In Europe, they like everything you do. The mistakes and everything. That's a little bit too much.

The problem is the following, black music is increasing encumbered by white elements, often pleasant but always superfluous, easily and advantageously replaced with black elements.

Everyone I talk to says stuff like, 'Music sucks today,' and I'm going to try and change all that.

Country music is me, it's what I've grown up with, and it's what I do.

The Beatles were just a band that made it very, very big, that's all.

Jazz isn't dead. It just smells funny.

Poetry fettered, fetters the human race. Nations are destroyed or flourish in proportion as their poetry, painting, and music are destroyed or flourish.

Well, I'll tell you, I don't know how aware teenagers are of me. I think it really depends on the teenager and how well-versed in music they are and what kind of music they like.

Jazz music hashaunted America for seventy years.It has tempted us out of our lily-white reserve with its black promise of untrammeled joy.

I think music needs to be presented in a way so that kids can grasp songs, dances, simple music that's associated with some particular defining moment in human experience.

Classical music is a wonderful 1200 year-old tradition that witnesses everything that it has meant and what it means right now to be human.

Opera in English is, in the main, just about as sensible as baseball in Italian.

The blues echoes right through into soul, R&B and hip hop. It's part of the make-up of modern music. You can't turn your back on the blues.

Johnny Rotten isn't punk. Maybe that's punk to somebody, but these people are participating and challenging the corporations that are telling us what punk is and what good music is.

The average music-lover hears only the production under prevailing conditions.

I'm not an anti-online person. I get what the modern world's about and I understand that that's the nature of music dissemination.

Of all the arts I think Music has the most mighty, universal, and immediate effect.

Realistically, English is a universal language; it's the number one language for music and for communicating with the rest of the world.

I think It's a bit of a disappointment that a lot of people's Golden Age of music is still the '60s.