Culture Quotes

You have to open your mind. I like the ability to express myself in a deep way. It's the closest music to our humanity - it's like a folk music that rises up out of a culture.

Everything is arranged so that it be this way, this is what is called culture.

When I think about the real pioneers of the psychedelic movement in a musical sense, not just the culture, everything had a handmade sort of vibe to it. We're inventing our culture as we move along into this.

My works are Chinese literature, which is part of world literature. They show the life of Chinese people as well as the country's unique culture and folk customs.

The style of the Bible in general is singularly adapted to men of every class and grade of culture, affording the child the simple nourishment for its religious wants, and the profoundest thinker inexhaustible matter of study.

Greenies have been part of the clubhouse culture longer than card games.

I'm just trying to tell a good story and make thought-provoking, entertaining films. I just try and draw upon the great culture we have as a people, from music, novels, the streets.

No people come into possession of a culture without having paid a heavy price for it.

There are so many women out there who are single moms, really not by choice, and doing it and making it work every day. I think it's becoming much more a part of our culture and I hope that it will become more accepted and that those women are going to be more and more appreciated, respected and supported.

The Irish and British, they love satire, it's a large part of the culture.

Vision without power does bring moral elevation but cannot give a lasting culture.

Zhang Yimou tried to use martial arts to talk about Chinese culture, Chinese people. What do they think, what do they want and what do they hope.

Writing is about culture and should be about everything. That's what makes it what it is.

Our culture runs on coffee and gasoline, the first often tasting like the second.

Slowly but surely, we are acquiring that famous culture of democracy, which is our objective.

Dream study impacts culture. We are put in touch with the inner poet who dreams. We hear our inner, subjective response to the outer world. That helps spiritualize our lives.

Culture is not a biologically transmitted complex.

Information and inspiration are everywhere... history, art, architecture, everything an illustrator needs. Europe is, after all, the land that has generated most of the enduring myths and legends of Western culture.

I'm fairly out of the loop when it comes to pop culture.

The diffusion of a universalist culture and of a pedagogy of peace appears more than ever to be the path that we must follow for the salvation of all nations on earth.

What does culture want? To make infinity comprehensible.

It's an old ploy of the bourgeoisie. They keep a standing 'art' to defend their collapsing culture.

Every now and again, the alternative culture is cherished by the mainstream for what it is, rather than how it should be, like the mainstream popular music.

You'd never know it from reading the rest of the Native writers, but Indians actually grew up with American pop culture.

The negative side to globalization is that it wipes out entire economic systems and in doing so wipes out the accompanying culture.

It's not worth it, it's not about money, especially when you're dealing with a culture. It should be about elevating the idea of what we are and who we are as people in the cinema, and that kind of stuff keeps dragging us back down.

I mean, the genuine roots of culture is folk music.

I started rapping before anybody had ever bought a car from it. It was truly about the art form and the culture, more so than now, where it's a successful way to make money. Back then you had to be doing it because you liked it.

There isn't a lot written about the motorcycle culture.

Over the past several years, all of us as Canadians, and as members of the North American cultural and economic environment, have been to a greater or lesser extent party to a significant attitudinal change towards our culture.