Quotes About Culture

A lot of what we sing concerns the Brazilian way of life. The stuff I write is reality, everything I see. That's the stuff I want to sing about.

The world is full of ways for people to dance. Concert dance doesn't get its due.

For a composer of concert music, 40 is actually very young. But for a rock musician, 40 is almost past due, where you think of rock music as really part of more youth-oriented culture.

My first concert was Third Eye Blind.

George Clinton was my first concert ever.

What do kids do? They go to movies, and they go to rock concerts.

I didn't really buy LPs or go to concerts.

I didn't start going to concerts until I moved to California.

I try to go to concerts whenever I can, just because I love music.

People in California don't live in a place so much as they do a condition.

A lot of times you're just conditioned by what's around you.

I think that maybe human beings are conditioned to violence.

Beyond brand, culture can help drive your product itself by creating the conditions for the idea generation that is and will continue to be the lifeblood of any company.

I have to confess that I've never seen Australian 'MasterChef.'

What is it about royalty - even if you're a confirmed republican - that is dramatically interesting?

There is no conflict between a better meal and a better world.

As an ethnically Asian Muslim, born and bred in this country, I am British. I have never felt a conflict between my country, my religion, and my background.

Zimbabweans, I've come to believe, we are very passive-aggressive people. We don't like conflict; we don't like confrontation, so we find all sorts of ways of avoiding that conflict and confrontation. We are not allowed to talk about bad things that go on in families.

My accent is very confused.

I started to write my songs when I was 15 and living in the Congo.

Moving to Dubai at age 9 and then the Congo, they were two completely opposite countries. But that brought me to music and taught me things that I never would have learned otherwise. And it was always about the rhythm in those two countries - that's why I love them.

Ask anybody from Africa which country is the best in terms of dressing, and they'll tell you Congo.

I feel really connected to antiquity for some reason.

For me, clothing has always been connected to history. That's what draws me in.