Quotes About Culture

Black music has become a commercial commodity. Live performances are not so accessible as they were previously. It use to be possible to go to the bar on the corner and hear music. It was available for a fifteen cent beer.

I have performed for people around the world but it is always a different feeling when you perform for your own people.

I've lost count of how many times I have performed in Chennai.

The odd thing about 'Cripple of Inishmaan' is it's never actually been performed on the island.

I've performed in Auburn Hills, at The Palace, so I haven't really been in downtown Detroit, but I've been able to be here, and I can really see, what the city was. Like, I can feel why Motown started here and how amazing it was.

The routines of any ethnic comic - Eddie Murphy or George Lopez, for example - would not work if they were performed by anybody outside the group. The same routines would become arrogant and racist.

My mother sang jazz and opera - she even performed at the Apollo on Amateur Night.

I must say that Bengaluru has been one of the best places where I've performed and I would love to associate with the theatre scene here on a personal level.

Frankly, the British always looked at this as a dumpy industrial area, but this was where Shakespeare lived and wrote and performed some of his greatest works.

We've been around the world, we've performed in places we couldn't even imagine we'd perform in.

I've always been a fan of old-time hymns and Scots-Irish dirges, though I wouldn't necessarily consider myself an expert on the type of music that was performed in those days.

I'm a consumer as well as a performer. Among my leisure-time activities is going to the theater. I'm very interested in that.

It's hard for a country performer to make a living in a Beatles society.

Canadians send us great hockey players. You also send us wonderful performers, from the beginning, with Mary Pickford.

The role of an orchestra in the 21st century isn't just playing, it's about developing future audiences and performers.

Gawking at one-time celebrities who, for whatever reason, end up performing jobs our culture deems a mark of failure is gross, but hardly a new thing.

I love performing in Delhi. It's the heart of the country.

The more I know about America, the better I'll be at performing American characters and American stories.

I love performing in front of people, no matter where they come from or what language they speak.

I come from a family rooted in the arts, so I think I naturally gravitated towards performing from an early age.

What we're looking for at my school is intellectuals. People who want to talk about the art and be knowledgeable about it. People who want to know the history. Not everybody needs to be performing.

Unless we build theater and performing arts, then we're not going to be creating future patrons. We need to make it accessible.

I like to think of myself as an unmediated novelist - or perhaps a national novelist.

Perhaps our Irish friends should not so completely turn their backs on their historical dishes, no matter how many jokes they might have to endure.