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American music culture is black culture. -- Yelawolf
We're a staple in the American music culture. Like us or not, we're here to stay. -- Jonathan Cain
The UK has a super strong music culture. I could definitely see myself living there if it made sense. -- MC Lars
I think that's the fascinating thing that exists now. This contrasts with a celebrity art and celebrity music culture. -- Stephen Mallinder
I can't pretend that I don't subscribe to Internet music culture in that I discover new music and old music simultaneously. -- Alan Palomo
It's really cool to see glowsticks at the show, to see dance music culture infiltrating and becoming one with the metal community. -- Jonathan Davis
The opportunity and the concept of merging music culture with actual boxing is exciting. It's bringing a younger demographic to the sport. -- Curtis Jackson
Audio virology is not a metaphor. It is to be taken literally. It maps real processes of mutation, transmission, contagion and memory within music culture. -- Kode9
I am continually influenced by the feeling that music culture captured in the late 60s - for my generation, it was a time to rebel, against our parents, against everything. -- Renzo Rosso
Most music culture these days runs on systems and networks devised to deal with the aftermath of thermonuclear war. Music culture has a habit of using these moods and machines in creative, unintended ways. -- Kode9
I know Diplo knows a lot about underground music culture - he was one of the people to put me onto music like that when I used to listen to the Mad Decent Mixes. It was like, 'Oh, he knows what I want.' -- Kreayshawn
We are devastated to learn of the death of Alexander McQueen, one of the greatest talents of his generation. He brought a uniquely British sense of daring and aesthetic fearlessness to the global stage of fashion. In such a short career, Alexander McQueen's influence was astonishing - from street style, to music culture and the world's museums. His passing marks an insurmountable loss. -- Anna Wintour
California is full of Mexican culture and Mexican music. -- Harry Dean Stanton
I mean, the genuine roots of culture is folk music. -- John Lydon
Change is the only constant, whether it's in music, culture, dance or fashion. -- Sonu Nigam
Historically, black music has influenced other cultures and other genres and created other genres. -- Miguel
Music is always going to be only as sophisticated as the culture that consumes it. -- Jimmy Chamberlin
Music is always a reflection of what's going on in the hearts and minds of the culture. -- Tori Amos
I have this massive love for the whole culture of pop music. It's my fascination, my ongoing passion. -- Siobhan Fahey
The tango is really a combination of many cultures, though it eventually became the national music of Argentina. -- Yo-Yo Ma
While not a musician, my father was a music agent for years before becoming pop culture icon Famous Amos. -- Shawn Amos
Provenance' is more than a multimedia concert. It's a journey that unifies cultures through music, theater and beautiful visuals. -- Maya Beiser
The whole American pop culture started in Philadelphia with 'American Bandstand' and the music that came out of that city. -- Daryl Hall
I would say there's always a movement of music and fashion in youth culture - every decade inspires the new one. -- Maripol
The whole world recognizes Russia's cultural achievements. It is impossible to imagine the world culture without Russian culture, without our music and literature. -- Vladimir Putin
Though music transcends language, culture and time, and though notes are the same, Indian music is unique because it is evolved, sophisticated and melodies are defined. -- Dayananda Saraswati
Jazz is not the popular culture. Jazz is in the same position in our culture as classical music. A very small minority of people really love it. -- John Corigliano
Most people have a passive relationship with music and clothes, with culture. But music was my first contact with anything creative. Music is it, as far as I'm concerned. -- Martin Freeman
I love the Italian culture - it's a beautiful culture. I love the language, the Italian people, their music, their attitudes... I just love it! Sometimes I think I'm an Italian trapped in a Spanish woman's body. -- Penelope Cruz
New Orleans, more than many places I know, actually tangibly lives its culture. It's not just a residual of life; it's a part of life. Music is at every major milestone of our life: birth, marriage, death. It's our culture. -- Wendell Pierce
Music and culture are intrinsically improvisational, existential. -- Archie Shepp
No matter what culture we're from, everyone loves music. -- Billy Joel
Culture changes, fashions change, customs change. Great music is immortal. -- Michael Jackson
Music is not an acquired culture... it is an active part of life. -- Isaac Stern
Hip-hop is more than music, it's a culture. It's bigger than hit songs. -- Nelly
Good music often starts in underground culture and then comes to the surface. -- Felix Buxton
Music is in every country and every culture around the world. It's universal. -- Mark Hoppus
America is deeply rooted in Negro culture: its colloquialisms; its humor; its music. -- Sonny Rollins
Character is the backbone of our human culture. Music is the flowering of character. -- Confucius
All music now is influenced by Hip Hop. It's so deeply ingrained in the culture. -- Aeriel Miranda
I try to put my culture in all my music, as much as I can. -- Karl Wolf
There are pop-culture things on television [that I like]. Not so much in music at all. -- Taylor Momsen
The impact of black music and black art forms on American culture is really difficult to appreciate. -- Jess Row
Our culture is our strength be it music, dance, poetry or anything, and these are very precious. -- Narendra Modi
Just immerse yourself in the culture of the music - it will open some doors for you. -- Joe Louis Walker
music alone can abolish differences of language or culture between two people and evoke something indestructible within them. -- Irene Nemirovsky
Jamaica's probably the most dominant island as far as influence goes, as far as music and dancing and culture. -- Joey Badass
It's terrible for the culture of music. Like anything that is purely economic, it ignores the most important component. -- Tom Waits
Sometimes I feel like a one man crusade against the devaluation of music in America and culture in the arts. -- Terry Bozzio
I'm homeless, in a funny way. My culture I think is completely rooted in German 19th century music I suppose. -- Hans Zimmer
Mainstream media would convince you that there's commercial culture and that's all - but this other music is still here. -- Michelle Shocked
An intelligent person feels guilty for downloading music without paying the musician, but they use this free-open-culture ideology to cover it. -- Jaron Lanier
On the aesthetic level, decolonized music presents itself as a direct antagonist to the traditional values promoted by the culture industry. -- Bocafloja
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Classical music is a special taste like Greek language or pre-Columbian archeology, not a common culture of reciprocal communication and psychological shorthand. -- Allan Bloom
Islamic culture has given us majestic arches and soaring spires; timeless poetry and cherished music; elegant calligraphy and places of peaceful contemplation. -- Barack Obama
From politics and business to music and food to culture, African-Americans have helped to shape our state's colourful past and its future. -- Mary Landrieu
Syncopations are no indication of light or trashy music, and to shy bricks at 'hateful ragtime' no longer passes for musical culture. -- Scott Joplin
It could be the sort of declining grip of the American MTV-nation culture-the fact that MTV doesn't play so much music anymore. -- M.I.A.
Teens today rule the world. The whole culture - movies, music - is pointed at young people. They have so 'much' power. -- James Franco
There's certain things in life that I love. One is architecture. And music, culture, food, people. New Orleans has all of that. -- Lenny Kravitz
I still think you people need to be curious [in order to absorb the culture]. You need to search Uzbekistani pop music. -- Ayshay
I was a history major in school. I review the past a lot and think about music history and how culture unfolds. -- Bruce Pavitt
I think celebrity culture and sexuality in pop music is really important, but I want there to be an alternative for people. -- Marina and the Diamonds
Music is an important part of our culture and record stores play a vital part in keeping the power of music alive -- Chuck Berry
Negro music and culture are intrinsically improvisational, existential. Nothing is sacred. After a decade, a musical idea, no matter how innovative, is threatened. -- Archie Shepp
If you really think back to the culture or just black America before rap music took off, New York could have been Paris. -- Ice Cube
The kingdom of music is not the kingdom of this world; it will acceptthose whom breeding and intellect and culture have alike rejected. -- E. M. Forster
I learned music listening to Elvis' records. His measurable effect on culture and music was even greater in England than in the States. -- Mick Fleetwood
I grew up on Hip Hop, it's the music I love and it's the music I respect. I respect the culture...that's me. -- Eminem
A culture which doesn't believe in region and religion is like a rock music, noise for old generation & nirvana for the young ones. -- Megha Khare
This was a time frame when dance music and clubs were having a real impact on culture, and it had an impact on me. -- Tori Amos
I love classical music. I love a lot of musicians playing together and the whole culture of that, whether it's Indian or it's Western. -- A. R. Rahman
I have strong sentiments toward Iran, since I distinguish between the Iranian regime and the Iranian people. I highly esteem Iranian music and culture. -- Moshe Katsav
You get below the Mason-Dixon line and you have some of the best music, culture, the two races, the literature, and it's so rich. -- Robert Duvall
I think this whole division between the genres has more to do with marketing than anything else. It's terrible for the culture of music. -- Tom Waits
Each culture might lend its own dialect, but above all that is the language of music itself, and it doesn't care about politics or boundaries. -- Geoff Zanelli
Hip-hop is a complex music and culture that has been reduced to a one-dimensional critique. Hip-hop's messages aren't all bad. Neither are they all good. -- Bakari Kitwana
My taste in music originates from my culture and heritage, and from traveling the world and listening to all kinds of fun sounds and bits. -- Chanel Iman
In terms of perceptions of the culture, most people don't think about music. They're not concerned with it. They don't take their musical legacy seriously. -- Alan Bishop
I explored rock culture and what the guitar can do though people like Jimmy Page and John McLaughlin, and the music moves away from pop. -- Johnny Marr
World events can shape culture. Music is either a soundtrack for or a narration of changing times. And who knows how that's going to go? -- L.A. Reid
Just out of curiosity, I wonder what makes music or culture or taste go in certain directions. Who knows what the forces are behind it. -- Beck
Culture and, within culture, music are the best and most fascinating thing that the German capital has to offer internationally. It is putting that at risk. -- Simon Rattle
I didn't want my music to be seen as examples of an electronic culture; I just wanted them to be thought of as pieces of music. -- Paul Lansky
Making of poetry, music, dance and art as culture-making in the service of nation-making. You can find writings that make that purpose for art quite explicit. -- Mark McMorris
What worries me sometimes in the culture is that the role for music that actually challenges and enlightens the audience is being pushed to the sidelines. -- Taylor Ho Bynum
Music and art and culture is escapism, and escapism sometimes is healthy for people to get away from reality. The problem is when they stay there. -- Chuck D
As a culture I see us as presently deprived of subtleties. The music is loud, the anger is elevated, sex seems lacking in sweetness and privacy. -- Shelley Berman
The United States finds itself with forces of reaction. Do I have to demonstrate this? The Taliban's annihilation of music and culture? The enslavement of women~? -- Christopher Hitchens
I think there is no culture in which music is not very important and central. That's why I think of us as a sort of musical species. -- Oliver Sacks
Moving to London was a culture shock, but in a really good way. I'm more aware now, and I'm less trusting of people in the music industry. -- Nina Nesbitt
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. -- Thurston Moore
The best music you make is relevant to the culture you are in, the timeframe you are in. I want to keep it as relevant as possible. -- Julian Lage
I kept my culture. I kept the music of my roots. Through my music I became this voice and image of Africa and the people without even realising, -- Miriam Makeba
Most musicians, regardless of what culture they come from, can get together and agree on some stuff about music. As there is going to be a common ground. -- Jerry Garcia
When Punk Rock happened, it created an opening in the culture... it made it ok to think you could play music, even though you had no musical training. -- Kim Gordon
Basically the message is: Steal It! Art, music, culture, the odd book and the slab of cheese... the new will be built upon the ruins of the old. -- Buenaventura Durruti
I was a kid who liked art and theater and dance and music, but if you lived in Harlem, high culture was somewhere else, and it wasn't black. -- Samuel R. Delany
If pop music reflects the culture, this will surely go down as the era in which people rose up and realized it was fun to dance at parties. -- Dana Gould
People are used to music that justifies street culture but something that's not touched on is why these kids act the way they act, live the way they live. -- Kendrick Lamar
Not just in Christian music but also in a lot of Christian culture there is a lot of pretending that everyone is perfect, nobody is really going through much. -- Michael Gungor
Dig into the roots of culture, and it will grow. It's like a grass that is growing, and it cannot stop, and music is like the fertilizer for that. -- Burning Spear
I think music in itself is healing. It's an explosive expression of humanity. It's something we are all touched by. No matter what culture we're from, everyone loves music. -- Billy Joel
Unquestionably, our contemporary world of music is far richer, in a sense, than earlier periods, due to the historical and geographical extensions of culture to which I have referred. -- George Crumb

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