Quotes About Culture

Those who preach in rap, don't make no money.

I'm a little long-winded. My dad is a preacher, my mom is Italian, so I come by it naturally.

I never grew up on Jodeci. I never grew up on things like that 'cause my dad was a preacher, and he kind of kept us away from music like that.

I'm not the kind of writer who's able to block out the world around me. I'm mindful of our own haves and have-nots, how our culture often blames and punishes the have-nots. I worry about our precarious economic and political climate.

Cultural change always precedes political change.

Literature precedes genre.

John Lennon made wonderful music, which people listen to as music. Nobody around the world is living their life according to the precepts of John Lennon.

Nothing, not even human life, is more precious to us than our myths about ourselves.

Food isn't like anything else. It's something precious. It's not a commodity.

In India, you see the way they embrace color in the culture - it's very celebratory of the existence of color. There's no rule of what color belongs together or doesn't belong together. They're not precious about it. It's very full-on.

In countries around the world, people spend more money on food because they know how precious it is.

The more everything gets digitalised, the more precious the live experience of going to the theatre is.

All peoples have evolved extraordinarily precise ways of settling issues about the things that matter to them.

I like writing about popular culture. It helps to place people. I think you can be really, really accurate if you know enough about it, and place people precisely.

I write a lot about race precisely because I don't believe it's real.

Italian is the language of song. German is good for philosophy and English for poetry. French is best at precision; it has a rigour to it.

I just think music is so intrinsically linked with images in the culture that we live in that you'll be hard-pressed to have an experience with the music without a preconceived notion.

I really like acting in French. It's actually quite different for me, from acting in English. It's fun acting in a foreign language. You're liberated or freed from preconceptions.

Hip-hop has had this history where the predecessor just is so harsh and not nice to the next coming generation that it creates this separation and this gap.

To the brains of our predecessors we owe all of our inheritance of civilization and culture.

I never want to predict the relationship between music and advertising.

Youthquake' wasn't an entirely predictable choice for Oxford's Word of 2017. It hasn't been on the lips of an entire nation, nor is it new. But it amply fulfilled the criteria Oxford requires for selection.

We could see that he was a charismatic guy who jumps over the moon and is very competitive, but nobody could have predicted what he would become to our culture.

As the coding movement continues to grow, the common narrative of the white male geek as the predominant influencer on geek culture will erode.