Quotes About Culture

To shut yourself from history is to shut yourself off from say music or painting or the theatre, literature for the rest of your life. It would be to cheat yourself of the pleasures of life.

Every generation thinks their music is the ultimate. But there's great stuff from every generation.

Revolution in America begins in books and music, then waits for political operatives to 'implement changes after the fact.'

Now that the generation that grew up on '80s indie-rock has attained influential positions in the culture, that music is the new yardstick. And that will shift yet again some day.

From politics and business to music and food to culture, African-Americans have helped to shape our state's colourful past and its future.

I get a wave of pride in America when I look back at what we've accomplished in the field of music.

But I feel music has a very important role in ritual activity, and that being able to join in musical activity, along with dancing, could have been necessary at a very early stage of human culture.

Hymn tunes are the nearest we've got to English folk music.

Things like rebellion and resistance to authority are absolutely as much a part of the human experience as love and cars are, and it's a part that doesn't get covered very much in pop music.

I just believe in my Indian, spiritual god and my music.

In Africa, music is not an art form as much as it is a means of communication.

Hip-hop music was something I grew up with, it was something that I loved since I was a little kid, and it's something that I chose to partake in an early age.

The curious beauty about African music is that it uplifts even as it tells a sad story.

I've been hearing fiddle music since I was in the womb, I'm sure.

I grew up listening to English music.

I think pop music has done more for oral intercourse than anything else that has ever happened, and vice versa.

I've grown up with my parents' music tastes, listening to Fleetwood Mac and the Rolling Stones.

Whenever I visit a city, I like to see what classical music concerts are on offer.

When I seek another word for 'music', I never find any other word than 'Venice'

I normally listen to Spanish music - well, Latin music. I like a lot of singers...

I was in Paris last year, where there's a great appreciation of many different aspects of African culture and of black culture. The music... the art... whatever... And I kind of went with that.

All these kids who are growing up on Skrillex and all this digital music- what are they gonna think when they hear rock'n'roll?

Imaginatively Glasgow exists as a music hall song and a few bad novels.

The thing that I realize about fashion now, fashion and music, now versus back then is that you had to have fresh records and be fresh.