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You don't realise how cool your culture is until you get out of that phase of trying to fit in. ”
The blues is like a planet. It's an enormous topic. You can't ignore the impact that it has had and continues to have on the whole musical culture. It's a tree that everyone is swinging from. Without it, I don't know where I would be. It's indelible and indispensable. ”
I think this whole division between the genres has more to do with marketing than anything else. It's terrible for the culture of music. ”
I used to imagine that making it in music - really making it in music - is if you're an old man going by a schoolyard and you hear children singing your songs, playing jump-rope, or on the swings. That's the ultimate. You're in the culture. ”
Rural Americans want leaders who help middle-class communities to plan and prosper over the long-term - not opportunists who reap the rewards for themselves, leaving nothing for the people who do the sowing. ”
I don't see us as a big media gimmick band. We don't have a cultivated appearance or anything like Kiss. ”
Our secular culture is adrift in a sea of relativism, escapism, and self-indulgent inanities, with our media and entertainment elites leading the parade. ”
The mutating virus of multiculturalism has escaped its breeding ground in elite universities and is now running rampant across popular culture, entertainment, and politics. ”
Welcome to the brave new world of American multiculturalism. From a nation of diverse peoples united by a common culture, we have become a people divided by a common malady. ”
In our 21st-century celebrity culture, we seem to demand an all-or-nothing verdict on any departing figure of public stature. ”