Character is the backbone of our human culture. Music is the flowering of character. — Confucius Copy Share Image
There's so much culture, so much music and so many different people from all walks of life. — Lola Young Copy Share Image
Just immerse yourself in the culture of the music - it will open some doors for you. — Joe Louis Walker Copy Share Image
I'm not afraid to embrace different music and different culture and put it in the music. — Dizzee Rascal Copy Share Image
World events can shape culture. Music is either a soundtrack for or a narration of changing times. And who knows how that's… — L.A. Reid Copy Share Image
I think there is no culture in which music is not very important and central. That's why I think of us as… — Oliver Sacks Copy Share Image
Culture and, within culture, music are the best and most fascinating thing that the German capital has to offer internationally. It is… — Simon Rattle Copy Share Image
We have harmonies, folk songs, and compositions attached to each occasion - ranging from birth, harvest, to our festivals. Our country thrives… — Shankar Mahadevan Copy Share Image
I think this whole division between the genres has more to do with marketing than anything else. It's terrible for the culture… — Tom Waits Copy Share Image
Most people have a passive relationship with music and clothes, with culture. But music was my first contact with anything creative. Music… — Martin Freeman Copy Share Image
With 'Stillness', I don't think I appreciated how very codified all the different genres were in radio formats and the various constituencies… — David Longstreth Copy Share Image
How you act, walk, look and talk is all part of Hip Hop culture. And the music is colorless. Hip Hop music… — Afrika Bambaataa Copy Share Image
Even though we were influenced by American culture and music, we like the rest of Europe have been colonized with that in… — Stephen Mallinder Copy Share Image
We have allowed our youths to buy into a culture (hip hop) that has been perverted, corrupted and overtaken by prison culture.… — Jason Whitlock Copy Share Image
In '77 there was no Internet, there was no Twitter or Facebook, and I think that, without being some old git who… — Steve Jones Copy Share Image
New Orleans is just so full of culture in the music content - blues, folk. I was introduced to a lot of… — Luke James Copy Share Image
Anyone interested in the world generally can't help being interested in young adult culture - in the music, the bands, the books,… — Margaret Mahy Copy Share Image
I think I realised, at teachers' training school, that I felt that the culture that I came from, the Sámi culture, was… — Mari Boine Copy Share Image
The superior person tries to promote music as a means to the perfection of human culture. When such music prevails, and people's… — Confucius Copy Share Image
Maybe it's naïve, but I would love to believe that once you grow to love some aspect of a culture-its music, for… — David Byrne Copy Share Image
It's terrible for the culture of music. Like anything that is purely economic, it ignores the most important component. — Tom Waits Copy Share Image
Capoeira is a game, it is dance, it is fight, it is of war and it is of peace, it is of… — Reinaldo Ramos Suassuna Copy Share Image
I was in Paris last year, where there's a great appreciation of many different aspects of African culture and of black culture.… — Lenny Kravitz Copy Share Image
