Quotes About Culture

For as long as we can trace back human life, there's always been some sort of music - ceremonies, rituals. It's part of the human makeup.

I've seen country music go uptown, like we say, and I'm proud I was there when it happened.

Music has no race. It appeals to everybody.

But music is, at the very minimum, inflammatory, exclusionary, divisive, encouraging of snobbery and solipsism.

Music is always a reflection of what's going on in the hearts and minds of the culture.

My period as a young teenager when you really listen to music so you can get understand a little bit more about what the music is was, say, 1965 to 1968. I was just lucky to be in those times.

Rhythm and blues used to be called race music. ... This music was going on for years, but nobody paid any attention to it.

You get below the Mason-Dixon line and you have some of the best music, culture, the two races, the literature, and it's so rich.

There's such a wealth of great music, clothes or whatever. There is so much great stuff out there, that why would you not still be interested if you've grown up in that kind of culture?

Every language has its own music.

I have this massive love for the whole culture of pop music... It's my fascination, my on-going passion.

If New Orleans is allowed to die, a crucial part of the world's music heritage will disappear.

I was into playing American music, especially the blues.

When I started working on electronic music, that was after the rave period. I haven't even seen that part of it that much.

I love art and music more than I love fashion, to be honest.

In cities like New York and Austin, there's much more of a social context for music than in other places.

When we moved back to the US, folk music was all the rage. So I traded in my banjo for a guitar.

The underlying process in Northern music tends to be slower and continuous, whatever's happening on the surface; in Southern music the underlying process is always faster.

Remember the Bob Dylan rule: it's not just a record, it's a movement.

I mean, the genuine roots of culture is folk music.

Most people are satisfied with the junk food being sold as music.

But why is it that in music, anything more than 5 years old - apart from a few hits - is never played on radio to the young public?

Musical innovation is full of danger to the State, for when modes of music change, the laws of the State always change with them.

I remember times when the whole music scene was just flourishing.