Quotes About Culture

I am pleased with the exhibition... everything on display was sold for a good price to decent people. It has been a long time since I believed that you could educate public taste.

We live in a culture that has a real hard time distinguishing fiction from reality. Even when they're told something is fiction.

Not only has the eyes taken over, but we have anaesthetised the ears through all the muzak that we hear all the time.

I am only a public entertainer who understands his time.

Even after going to law school, following the footsteps of my father (an accomplished lawyer and judge at the time); I realized that the suit would never replace the kimono!

There is hardly a pioneer's hut which does not contain a few odd volumes of Shakespeare. I remember reading the feudal drama of Henry V for the first time in a log cabin.

It is a common rule with primitive people not to waken a sleeper, because his soul is away and might not have time to get back.

Seek art from every time and place, in any form, to connect with those who really move you.

You create a fearful culture where you spend a lot of time looking at where you screwed up.

My mother served me wine and water from the time I was 3 years old.

I wanted to remind people that there was a time when music required an attention span.

In my time, you needed to speak a little Italian, and that was it.

A lot of people heard about gin and juice for the first time from Snoop Dogg, but it was nothing new in rap music, and it was nothing new in the black community.

He plead insanity like they do now all the time. Sir, what would you have done in 1859?

Postmodernism is silly and joyless at the same time.

We have come to think of art and work as incompatible, or at least independent categories and have for the first time in history created an industry without art.

Our people, though capable of strong and durable feeling, were not demonstrative in their affection at any time, least of all in the presence of guests or strangers.

Here in England we live at a slower pace, have more time to enjoy things - like good jazz.

The best way to get to know Africa is to go there and see what it is. To know somewhere that crazy and that magnificent, you have to spend some time among people, the rhythm of their lives.

History does not record anywhere or at any time a religion that has any rational basis.

It seems everyone in the world is now a potential member of the paparazzi. Most of the time people ask if they can take a picture with their mobiles but increasingly they don't bother to ask.

It is as though a portal in time has opened, and the Christians of the 14th century are pouring into our world.

In books lies the soul fo the whole past time.

The most important thing... was to change their spirit; and since at that time I felt that literature was the best means to this end, I decided to promote literary movement.