Culture Quotes

I'm just a singer, Elvis was the embodiment of the whole American culture.

Dancing was always part of my culture growing up in Barbados. When I shot my 1st video I worked really hard with my choreographer to perfect the routines.

I remember hearing Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee, Big Bill Broonzy, Chuck Berry and Bo Diddley and not really knowing anything about the geography or the culture of the music. But for some reason it did something to me - it resonated.

I love places that have an incredible history. I love the Italian way of life, I love the food, I love the people, I love the attitudes of Italians.

It is fair to write about the change in your magazines. But what I want to see is the change on your covers ... When the covers change, that's when culture changes.

Celebrity life and media culture are probably the most overbearing pop-cultural conditions that we as young people have to deal with, because it forces us to judge ourselves.

The blurring of fantasy and reality is something that the Japanese herald in their life, in their day-to-day commercialism.

Culture changes, fashions change, customs change. Great music is immortal.

The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognise that we ought to control our thoughts.

Tradition will accustom people to any atrocity.

Culture of the mind must be subservient to the heart.

We have not invaded anyone. We have not conquered anyone. We have not grabbed their land, their culture, their history and tried to enforce our way of life on them.

One thing I've always loved about the culture at Microsoft is there is nobody who is tougher on us, in terms of what we need to learn and do better, than the people in the company itself. You can walk down these halls, and they'll tell you, 'We need to do usability better, push this or that frontier.'

If your culture doesn't like geeks, you are in real trouble.

A nation's culture resides in the hearts and in the soul of its people.