Quotes About Culture

The great thing about the arts, and especially popular music, is that it really does cut across genres and races and classes.

At home, we don't listen to our music-we listen to other people's music. It keeps you attached to the show business world.

Music has always been transnational.

My taste in music originates from my culture and heritage, and from traveling the world and listening to all kinds of fun sounds and bits.

I'm enamored with the art world. Anytime you look at anything that's considered artistic, there's a commercial world around it: the ballet, opera, any kind of music. It can't exist without it.

I never liked living in Montreal. And I don't really like the music scene there. It was never my cup of tea, and I never felt like I ever fit in.

Whenever there's a change with Jazz & its aesthetics, it's almost always reflected with a change in the culture.

I'm a fan of music from all over the world.

Using music to promote hate seems to be the bastardisation of music to me.

Ironically, for a few million people in the Far East, I did become an English teacher through my music.

Entertainment isn't just based on the very structured syndrome of European popular music, and it's great that there are so many thousands of people who are of the same opinion.

You can't make jazz without using certain elements of Latin music.

Classical music in Venezuela is now something like a pop concert. You can see people screaming or crying because they don't have a ticket.

Jazz is such a powerful cultural statement that it's almost as if it's intertwined with society.

Cubans are frantic when it comes to appreciating music.

I got my interest in Lotte Lenya and the Brecht-Weill canon from my parents. And I love classical music - I got that from my parents. I love Cole Porter - that I got from my dad.

I also like Western classical music and jazz.

Rock 'n Roll is monotony tinged with hysteria.

Hip hop is the new rock n' roll, you know what I mean? And anybody who doesn't think that is just sort of living in the past. It's all just American music, really, when you get right down to it.

It could be my British need for discipline that makes me admire the American appetite for freedom and passion.

I love the '70s. I think the '70s had the best music and the best movies.

I've always loved hip-hop, since I was a kid, that's the music that I loved. I think everyone of our generation kind of fantasized about hip-hop in some ways.

So that I saw music as a way of documenting realities from the urban cities of Latin America.

I am pretty detached from the local music crowd though.