Quotes About Culture

The Blues scene now is international. In the '50s it was purely something that you would hear in black clubs, played by black musicians, especially in America. But from the '60s onwards it changed.

Listen, 'The Purge' actually exists in some form or another in many places around the world when you think about it.

Political correctness means nothing to me. Nothing. It's the new Puritanism, darling. Preventing us from expressing ourselves.

Americans have an interesting conundrum, a black and white line: You're on one side or the other of Puritanism or licentiousness. But that gray area where people abide, between their ears or on the Internet, needs to be fleshed out more in terms of permission granted.

'No means no' is puritanism.

There are no French Puritans.

You can't understand America without understanding the Puritans. In many ways, we're still living out their legacy in ways that are good and bad.

The Puritans removed organs and paintings from churches, but bought them for private use in their homes.

A characteristic of older folksongs, in most cases, is that we don't know their composers or authors. Older folksongs were written often with no commercial purpose in mind. They were passed down by word of mouth, from generation to generation.

Show business is part of a larger culture, a world-wide culture that must make up to the fact that the accumulation of things doesn't make a life necessary any happier or purposeful.

In every culture, in every language, there is expressive play, expressive word play; there's language use to different purposes that we would call poetry.

Myth and mythology often serve constructive and aspirational purposes. But they also do harm.

Inspired by the purse rather than the soul, the mercenary side fairly screams in many of the works put out by every day American publishers.

On an average day, I have two things to read in my purse: a book and a play.

In grade school I was taught that the United States is a melting pot. People from all over the world come here for freedom and to pursue a better life. They arrive with next to nothing, work incredibly hard, learn a new language and new customs, and in a generation they become an integral part of our amazing nation.

I'd like to pursue music back home because I still tend to express myself better through my mother language - English - and it's something I've been dreaming about and would like to achieve.

My mother sang. But back in the day, it was looked down upon if the lady of the house wanted to sing in public. So, she couldn't pursue her musical aspirations.

In most every other country, 'body flying' more commonly known as BASE jumping is legal and looked upon as a beautiful art. Here in the United States, those of us who pursue human flight are treated as criminals and are forced to travel abroad to seek one of man's most fundamental desires, to fly free.

I obeyed my parents' rules inside our Chinese household while I pursued my dreams in the American world outside.

I don't know if it's responsible for kids of my age to be so aggressively pursuing monogamous binds, because I don't think we're ready for them. The romanticism within our culture dictates that that's what you're supposed to be looking for.

When a culture has fallen totally away from spiritual pursuits into materialism, one must begin by demonstrating they are each a soul, not a material animal.

Hip Hop is an idea. It is the pursuit of one's authentic being through the arts. It is not a physical thing; it is an attitude - even an aptitude.

My life and career is defined by the constant pursuit of new forms of culture and self-expression.

The culture of caring and giving permeates many Indian families. In their own way, they are engaged in philanthropic pursuits.