Quotes About Culture

L.A. is so focused on TV and film that theater is kind of an arcane sport. People look at you like you're doing something cute.

Like all right-listening folk, I am an implacable enemy of all muzak.

But the reality is that we are a folk band.

I'm actually really obsessed with folk art.

Black folk have been 'the other' in shows and movies and in life for quite a long time. Not from our perspective, we're not 'the other,' but from other people's perspective we have been 'the other.'

I love Punjabi Folk.

My dad's side of the family were calm folk from England, but the other side just loved to party. Somewhere between those two factions is me.

I started learning Bharatnatyam from the age of three. I have also learnt folk dance.

It is a part of us, film-makers and audiences; what we can't say with dialogues, we say with a song. We tell stories through songs, look at our folk cultures.

I've grown up with bhangra and Haryanvi folk dances.

What makes one type of music classical and one bluegrass and one folk - these things aren't what's important.

I don't really know what 'folk music' means anymore.

With 'Ta chuma,' which is a Garhwali folk song, I feel that there will be a strong connect which people will feel and they will get closer to folk music.

There is a black folk music audience. They're just very small.

I was reared on folk music.

There's not that much English folk music that is really that appealing.

Folk songs, whatever else they might be, are mainly craft.

I have not seen 'The Lion King.' I don't do black folklore. And I'm black.

As black folks we're always sensitive. As a black person it's always racial.

The only black folks in town when I was growing up were me and my cousins and one other family.

The way of the world is to make laws, but follow custom.

Being born into a Malayali family that followed a matriarchal system, I always felt loved and had a high sense of self-worth.

Las Palmas, Lugo, Betis... if you followed them, you know we had an identity. You saw it, we played good football.

We're from New York, so we have a decent following.