Culture Quotes

"I think it's important as an artist to never forget where you come from." "If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need" "4: Without music, life would be a mistake." "Life doesn't imitate art, it imitates bad television." "Tradition is the illusion of permanence." "I think food, culture, people and landscape are all absolutely inseparable." "Doing less is not being lazy. Don't give in to a culture that values personal sacrifice over personal productivity." "I'm just a preacher trying to preach the gospel, the good news of this thing, which is diversity and the richness that it brings to our culture" "I'm half Hawaiian and the haka is a very sacred thing, something your family teaches you." "Artists are here to disturb the peace" "A bookstore is one of the only pieces of evidence we have that people are still thinking." "People always say 'You do racial comedy.' And I don't, exactly. I do cultural comedy. Because race and culture are two different things" "There's a big difference between race and culture. Because racially, I'm an Indian man. Culturally, not at all" "Without culture, and the relative freedom it implies, society, even when perfect, is but a jungle. This is why any authentic creation is a gift to the future." "America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between."