Quotes About Culture

I am of the belief that acting is a form of blended art that shouldn't be restricted to a particular type or even a country.

I have been blessed often by Buddha, but equally by America.

I was so glad that I was able to use my skills of speaking Chinese in a film where the character is Chinese, because sometimes you actually don't get to do that. Especially in Hollywood blockbusters today because they want everyone around the world to understand what is happening, so they usually want you to speak English.

There's all these summer blockbusters out there, but nobody's talking about them... they're talking about 'Sharknado.' It's amazing!

It's good to know where you come from. It makes you what you are today. It's DNA, it's in your blood.

I've got Arabic music in my blood.

I'm very proud of my Scottish blood.

Bluegrass is in my blood and in my ears.

Black people created rock music, it's a fact. Black people created bluegrass and rock and roll way before Elvis Presley and The Beatles.

We're all big fans of bluegrass.

Bluegrass is really a big part of my background.

American blues can make you sad.

Blues and jazz are such a root to music.

Blues is one of the most important art forms. It's an amazing music, and we don't want to lose it.

Coming up in Chicago, we heard a lot of blues.

I grew up on the precursors to rock and roll, rhythm and blues.

I think the blues will always be around. People need it.

I think it will always be around it just takes one person to make people aware of the blues.

If they played more blues, people would just get it - they try to hold it back but just about can't hold it back now because the blues is really going.

When the slaves left Africa, they left us this music. They left us blues.

Well, I grew up on the blues, man!

I have a lot of friends who are involved in everything from Americana to blues to R&B to pop to country.

The blues is played everywhere. There's no place I've been where they don't have blues or aren't interested in blues.

Because we grew up in Australia, to find information about a lot of blues guys, I used to go to the library and find the jazz magazines. They didn't even sell them at the time in news agents and stuff.