Quotes About Culture

If we follow the white man, we're going to drown with the white man.

Every time you hear an 808 drum machine beat on one of my songs, it comes from Freaknik.

For me to have the opportunity to learn the darbuka and the tabla in Dubai, it created my own thoughts for music.

You know, MMA doesn't need New York, New York needs MMA. And I say that with all due respect to New York.

We've got to dumb America up again.

I feel like the world is getting dumber. I don't necessarily think people are stupid, but I think we're getting dumber.

The first time I saw the Dutch character known as Black Pete, or Zwarte Piet, my heart sank, and I felt a little nauseated.

My mam is Dutch but I'm green.

I see it as my duty in some way is to be out in the world as an Australian putting forward what I consider to be authentic Australian music.

I'm dying to go to India.

Cajun culture is dying.

I'm actually a big 'Duck Dynasty' fan.

A dysfunctional team means a dysfunctional - and likely doomed - company.

In England, we're around so much American culture and TV anyway, so it's an accent that's always in our ear.

I suppose I was lucky to be born in a time where I was in my early '20s in the '80s. It was just a happening time to be around.

A lot of people have asked me what's it like being an American player in Europe. 'Do you have to earn more respect because you're American?' But I don't think it's like that at all. I think if you're good, you're good. They don't care where you're from or anything like that.

People called me 'Iman the black model'. In my country, we're all black, so nobody called somebody else black. It was foreign to my ears.

If a culture doesn't allow you to laugh at the leaders or at things that your eyes and ears tell you are actually happening, that's not good.

Western music is alien to my ears.

My songs never really reach the ears of white America.

I loved history and Eastern European politics.

My family's from Eastern Europe.

I could go out and talk about President Clinton... or some issue, but people will be on either side. But everyone eats. It's the international language, like Esperanto.

Clothes, as much as music, have an eerie echo of time and place.