Quotes About Culture

Soul and blues were a definite influence on me. It was raw and naked emotion which you didn't get much where I come from.

Of all the peoples of the world, the Chinese are probably the most at home with their excrement. They know its value. For 4,000 years they have used raw human feces to fertilize fields.

I didn't grow up seeing faces of patriots, emotional and raw and gritty, who looked like me.

I would never have written 'Trainspotting' if it hadn't been for this album, 'Raw Power,' and 'Metallic K.O.'

I definitely feel like people in the South are a little more raw. Our whole swag, the way we talk... When I go to the East Coast, people automatically know I'm not from there.

I would say, for me, flamenco is so pure, so raw. I love pop culture but sometimes I miss the root, the rawness.

Now if you call 'Ain't No Half-Steppin' ' or 'Raw' an old-school song, I agree with you. But if you call Big Daddy Kane an old-school artist, I disagree with you.

What Chris Webber and the Fab Five - Jalen, Juwan, Ray, Jimmy and those guys - they created a culture, and Michigan was a beneficiary of that. Chris Webber was a big part of it.

If nothing else, we grew up loving the old blues artists and Ray Charles.

I grew up with Ray Charles playing in the car all the time or playing in the house.

I was one of I think three white girls in my school. So, I was very much an outsider. And plus I was Jewish and all of my friends were black and Baptist because they listen to the coolest music. We were all listening to Ray Charles and what was then called race music.

I have grown up watching Satyajit Ray, Hrishikesh Mukherjee, Basu Chatterjee, Ritwik Ghatak, Raj Kapoor; listening to SD Burman, RD, Kishore Kumar and Salil Chowdhury.

We have inherited both Rabindranath Tagore and Satyajit Ray. We love them and we respect them and we adore them, so we also have the right to critique them.

Bengal has always produced good cinema, be it Satyajit Ray or Ritwik Ghatak.

I personally think our national anthem is not patriotic enough. There is another poem by Dwijendralal Ray called 'Dhono Dhanne Pushpe Bhora,' which is more soul-stirring as a national anthem.

I would like to reach out to the global audience; Music is beyond all the culture and language barriers.

I worked hard to reach where I am and I certainly don't want to lose my grip over either Bengali or Hindi cinema.

Irony is going to be hard to get. You have to be master of the literal first. But then, Americans don't get irony either. Computers are going to reach the level of Americans before Brits.

If you're in America or Europe, walk for three blocks, and you'll pass about 14 Vikings. Their reach was immense.

And for me, I reached the point where I know the way I live my life is not conventional, and so I feel like whatever relationship I do end up in is also not going to be conventional. So I don't operate from feeling like I have to be with someone who is Muslim, or the other way around.

I've reached a point in England where you can't go much further; I would love to come to America and work with some of the interesting directors here.

The Bradshaws suggests an extraordinary civilisation that existed long before modern man reached the British Isles.

Our respect for culture and diversity and arts is very low because we only focused on building the economy. But now as we have reached modernization... many citizens can display their potential for arts and culture and I believe that's why Psy has become so popular.

The experience of being on a show that is very much in the center of popular culture is exciting. You really feel like you're reaching people.