Quotes About Culture

Anywhere you had a commerce center, you had a lot of music.

If you will show me the songs which a people or a community sing, then I will tell you the character of that community.

The blues and jazz will live forever... So will the Delta and the Big Easy.

It's unfortunate that music has become such big business.

I really do love Diana Ross; I grew up listening to her records. I grew up in a little town in Mexico, so while we got the music, we never got the experience of watching her.

I don't really like to infuse music with politics - but I wouldn't say as a general statement that it shouldn't be.

An intelligent person feels guilty for downloading music without paying the musician, but they use this free-open-culture ideology to cover it.

When Jazz broke through in England, I remember sneaking to listen on the radio much to my parent's disapproval.

Rap music came along and saved my life. I started to tell the stories of the streets and that was my way out.

He's a world-famous name to people who care about his music, but there are many people who have never heard of George Gershwin and those numbers increase.

I didn't want my music to be seen as examples of an electronic culture; I just wanted them to be thought of as pieces of music.

Hip-hop was started as a very egocentric, testosterone, machismo-driven art form. The way that people are trying to take away that masculinity that is a such an intrinsical part of hip-hop music.

When I write in Hebrew, I don't look for sophistication in music; it's just pure emotion that comes out.

My thing is when people say Dom Kennedy's music reminds them of L.A., I wanna do that 100 percent because at the end of the day that's all I am.

Music moves society more than most people realize. In my opinion, it's a soft manipulator of influence and change.

Secondarily, I think films that are driven by music also terrify studios.

If I had money, I would like to get an old building, have music performances, do lithographs, have shows of paintings, and do those things that I'm interested in doing.

I want to help promote Korean music around the world.

Lots of the bands [in New Orleans] couldn't read too much music. So they used a fiddle to play the lead - a fiddle player could read - and that was to give them some protection.

It's a melting pot, southern Africa. You find these cultural collisions that result in art and music, and it's pretty amazing.

Secular music was not allowed in our household.

Classical music is one of the best things that ever happened to mankind. If you get introduced to it in the right way, it becomes your friend for life.

[Kids today] think "Grease" is just one long music video. So they watch it over and over again the way we, when we were kids, we listened to albums.

There hasn't been anything real since grunge. That was the last movement led by music or an art form.