Quotes About Culture

I like African music, and I'm a huge Ravi Shankar fan.

I've always felt that rock & roll was very, very wholesome.

I heard someone say that all black people got rhythm. Bullshit.

I play American and World music, Texas style.

I like the type of music that can make my heart beat and the melody that makes me high but this type of music isn't popular in Korea.

I believe the history of American music is just as important as anything political because it's changed generations of people.

I think America concedes that true American music has sprung from the Negro.

Back in those days, all us skinny white British kids were trying to look cool and sound black. And there was Hendrix, the ultimate in black cool. Everything he did was natural and perfect.

Music is not supposed to be nationalist. It is supposed to surpass language barriers. It is about generations communicating with each other.

Tejano music is a very relaxing style and it reminds me of home.

Refine your senses through the great masters of music, painting, and poetry.

Now, what of the entertainment that is available to our young people today? Are you being undermined right in your homes through your television, radio, slick magazines, and rock music records?

You see all races in music, and in dance and theatre, so why can't we see it in fashion?

I have observed, too, that the people of the many countries that I have visited are showing an ever increasing interest in the classical and traditional music of their own cultures.

Richard Strauss--Old Home Week in Gomorrah

I dont know if its embarrassing, but I have a lot of girl Christian music.

I can't satisfy myself with just trying to tie all of my imagination into music, especially when music is not appreciated as an art form as much as it used to be.

It was like being at an Arabian hoedown with a band of psychedelic hillbillies (p. 171).

I can't pretend that I don't subscribe to Internet music culture in that I discover new music and old music simultaneously.

It's VH1, it's everywhere, and you know music is just the world right now. People love music.

I don't listen to Bollywood music much. But yes I listen to Indian music quite often and other non- film music.

I think blues music is music of the soul. Of course, there are other forms. You could call some classical music blues music in that way.

Commercial rock 'n' roll music is a brutalization of the stream of contemporary Negro church music an obscene looting of a cultural expression.

The music industry isn't converging toward dance music. Dance music is dance music. It's been around since disco - and way before disco. But there's different versions of dance music.