Famous Quotes & Sayings

Edward Hirsch

There are still many tribal cultures where poetry and song, there is just one word for them. There are other cultures with literacy where poetry and song are distinguished. But poetry always remembers that it has its origins in music.

Salman Rushdie

The Koran was revealed at a time of great change in the Arab world, the seventh-century shift from a matriarchal nomadic culture to an urban patriarchal system.

Robert M. Pirsig

When somebody goes outside the cultural norms, the culture has to protect itself.

Roland Barthes

The text is a tissue of quotations drawn from the innumerable centres of culture.

Robin McKinley

I've always been fascinated by the grassroots folktale level of a culture, and as a storyteller, I have to follow what seems to be leading me on.

Rebecca Solnit

I sometimes wonder what those of us who are writers would become in a nonliterary culture - storytellers? Hermits?

Sam Abell

I now want to be a photographer of my time, and our common culture.

Wade Davis

Change is no threat to culture.

W. Somerset Maugham

The end of culture is right living

Bill Joy

Systems are going to get a lot more sophisticated.

Young Jeezy

All my music is inspirational. You just gotta listen to the words and get what you can get out of it.

Ennio Morricone

Music is an experience, not a science.

Jimmy Page

Music is the one thing that has been consistently there for me. It hasn’t let me down.

Arthur Phillips

But music is, at the very minimum, inflammatory, exclusionary, divisive, encouraging of snobbery and solipsism.

Vanessa Mae

Music is about the performance.

Sophie Ellis-Bextor

Dance music is great, but it's not a time to be reflective or particularly wistful.

Tom DeLonge

Music is good when it makes you dance. Music is great when it makes you who you are

Ted Nugent

Music is the great connector.

Matisyahu

My music is not really about one ideology. It's not about one truth.