Quotes About Culture

I don't think that American drivers going to NASCAR are taking the easy way out because as I said, the racing is amazing; it's just that it's easier to adapt to what you grow up with. American drivers grow up with NASCAR, they know NASCAR, and that's where they want to go.

Drag racing has played a big role in In-N-Out's history, and it is also an important part of my family history.

I grew up at a time with androgyny in the 1980s; it was easy to pass under the radar as a gay may.

I live in Los Angeles where there is not that much in the way of theatre, so the La Jolla Playhouse is pretty much the only place that is on my radar, and when they have something going on, and I am available, I will certainly go in.

That became the Netflix culture: radical honesty.

In the past Berlin was much more radical and extreme and now it's becoming much more of a conventional European city.

I started the label Tzadik to support an entire community of musicians, not just Jewish musicians. But the radical Jewish culture movement was begun in a lot of ways because I wanted to take the idea that Jewish music equals 'klezmer' and expand it to, 'Well, Jewish music could be a lot more than that.'

We're looking to rebrand L.A. Not in some sort of radical way, but we've forgotten to sell this city, internationally and nationally... it's important for us to say who we are.

Not enough books focus on how a culture responds to radically new ideas or discovery. Especially in the biography genre, they tend to focus on all the sordid details in the life of the person who made the discovery. I find this path to be voyeuristic but not enlightening.

If the culture you have is radically different from an 'experiment and take-risk' culture, then you have a big change you going to have to make - and no little gimmicks are going to do it for you.

The way to achieve a higher birthrate, which is a noble goal and I am glad conservatives are serious about addressing it, is to radically change the culture.

In museums and palaces we are alternate radicals and conservatives.

Have you listened to the radio lately? Have you heard the canned, frozen and processed product being dished up to the world as American popular music today?

I don't understand some of the music I hear on MTV or the radio, because they don't mention the times we live in. They have nothing to do with nothing.

Nobody wants to hear R&B. It's sad. If you want to be on the radio you got to stay young.

People in America, when listening to radio, like to lean forward. People in Britain like to lean back.

Whatever had been on the radio in the '60s; I mean we were always listening to the radio.

I think you have to have a jazz pedigree to be on jazz radio.

And music was a very important part of our lives. The radio was on all day.

In the late '90s, R&B was dominant in the radio, and the white kids were taking it mainstream.

I grew up on the pirate radio scene which started out as drum 'n' bass music. U.K. garage picked up and got bigger on the back end of that.

Daft Punk wouldn't have normally fit into anything that was pop on the radio, but they just did it.

I have a real issue with radio these days. I just am not into the current music.

I've always been very left of center and the radio never had much diversity and film did.