Quotes About Culture

We have inherited a great music. This music is a holdover. It comes with us like the skin, the texture of our hair. It's our memory banks.

People seem to think that folk music is people with acoustic guitars. Or punk music is people with mohawks, leather jackets.

Commercial music, for the most part, is popular music and you always have to keep that in mind.

I'm very interested in music and where these sounds of Western music come from.

Learn to feel sorry for music because, although it is the international language, it has no swear words.

Most of the reggae awareness is still among music industry people and people who are already into all types of music.

If I had to give up reading or give up listening to music, I suspect I'd stick with the music.

The one thing you'll notice when you're walking through Harlem is every single passing car is playing different music and there's also music that's being played out of windows.

I also combined the R&B feel with the pop music of Taiwan... I wanted to bring the R&B flavor and other Westernized sounds to my music, because that's the type of music I grew up listening to.

If pop music reflects the culture, this will surely go down as the era in which people rose up and realized it was fun to dance at parties.

My mother was a music teacher and my grandfather was a professor of music, and there was a lot of singing in the family. It wasn't like trained singing or anything like that, but it was singing.

I just love music generally. If you come to my house I always have music playing.

I play popular songs. This is not some obscure, unusual music. This is popular music.

Pop music is the one genre that isn't a genre. If the kids like it, then that's what defines it as pop music. Pop music is just something new.

I think rap music is the sole reason for a lot of black acceptance in pop culture; because the music is very popular, it gets our image out in other ways than in movies.

Im really into the indie-music scene and listen to a lot of De La Soul.

I grew up listening to all kinds of music, everything from country to rock, pop, R&B and even rap, so for me, music is music and a great song is a great song.

Mexican music runs through my veins. I loved it. Growing up, my father didn't allow us to listen to English music at home. That's all I heard. I had no choice.

I think the music is relevant and if people are into the music, they're going to be into it regardless of when it comes from.

I'm an artist. And I'm happy that I was there at the commencement of this music, this Jamaican music, to put my contribution and help to establish it.

I mainly play traditional music, which by definition is music that you've heard someone else doing.

I'm not suggesting our music is the only music, but I am suggesting that there are certain elements in America's culture that are so precious that it would be a shame for them to go down the drain.

I love music, I love all kinds of music, particularly jazz. Jazz is an extension of America. There's no other country in the world that could have produced jazz.

It's not very long ago that we were all singing country music. And country music is equally black as it is white and that's important to recognize.