Music and culture are intrinsically improvisational…

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

As a New Yorker you can't help but be proud of the fact that so much music and culture started here. Punk rock, jazz,…

— Moby

But know this: as far as a music culture goes, EDM is the one who will accept the kids on the outliers, the ones…

— Kaskade

I feel like flamenco is part of this Latin music culture. It's from Spain, but flamenco has always been connected to Latinoamerica.

— Rosalia

There should be change - the West should understand our music and culture, and vice versa. With such collaboration, artists can come closer to…

— Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan

No matter what culture you're from, everyone loves music.

— Billy Joel

When I was little, I was listening to the Beatles, Bob Marley, Janis Joplin, and stuff. I had a big soul music culture, and…

— Jain

I feel like Houston is one of the leading things in music culture. Everyone loves the Houston culture. It needs to have its own…

— Travis Scott

Hip-hop is more than music, it's a culture. It's bigger than hit songs.

— Nelly

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

People seem ready for a more in-depth idea of folk music, culture and history.

— Rhiannon Giddens

I think music in itself is healing. It's an explosive expression of humanity.

— Billy Joel

Records were vitally important to the development of music and of all music cultures. With that being pushed by the wayside, I can't see…

— John Lydon

In times of totalitarian or autocratic rule, music (indeed culture in general) is often the only avenue of independent thought. It is the only…

— Daniel Barenboim

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