Culture Quote by Tom Waits

It's terrible for the culture of music. Like anything that is purely economic, it ignores the most important component.

— Tom Waits

I am so sorry to see the state of reading in such decline. I think it says something really scary and terrible about us…

— Lee Smith

The superior person tries to promote music as a means to the perfection of human culture. When such music prevails, and people's minds are…

— Confucius

I have a great affection for Indian culture and music.

— John McLaughlin

I try to put my culture in all my music, as much as I can.

— Karl Wolf

I was in Paris last year, where there's a great appreciation of many different aspects of African culture and of black culture. The music...…

— Lenny Kravitz

Character is the backbone of our human culture. Music is the flowering of character.

— Confucius

Even though we were influenced by American culture and music, we like the rest of Europe have been colonized with that in the post-war…

— Stephen Mallinder

There's so much culture, so much music and so many different people from all walks of life.

— Lola Young

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…

— Oliver Sacks

I think I realised, at teachers' training school, that I felt that the culture that I came from, the Sámi culture, was not good…

— Mari Boine

In '77 there was no Internet, there was no Twitter or Facebook, and I think that, without being some old git who hates anything…

— Steve Jones