Quincy Jones Quotes

A country is made not by policy alone, but by its music, its entertainment shows, all of it.

Queen Victoria did not regard art, letters, or music as in any way springing from national character: they were something quite apart, elegant decorations resembling a scarf or a bracelet, and in no way expressive of the soul of the country.

I think it is very possible that my deeper character is not very English.

National identity does not figure in the Tamil way of thinking.

A nation must be embraced, rehabilitated and expressed as a tangible sign of human creativity and as an integral element of mankind's heritage.

The music is just so rich and part of the culture there. I suddenly felt like I needed to go on this mission to make sure we save New Orleans because - not that I can save anything - but it's so much part of what this country is, this whole mix of people coming together and doing this thing.

Unfortunately, I don't look as Latin as I am. I get called a white guy a lot, but I am very proud of my heritage. I try my hardest to bring honor to my Mexican roots. Latin people are very passionate and loyal, and I will always remember who I am and where I come from.

Human cultural diversity is vast; the range of cultural practices, beliefs, and languages that we speak is vast.

I've never understood people who say they're not a practicing Jew. You never hear a black guy say he's not a practicing African-American. What does it even mean?

Yeah, I think that's sort of the American way. And it's also the Polish way, it turns out.

The thing about being an Indian person is that you feel most at home with your own people.

There are Latino people in our world who believe strongly that if you are Latino you should speak the language, you should eat the food, you should listen to the music, you should be proud. And when you don't do those things, some people will look at it as if you're neglecting who you are.

Yidaki didgeridoo has been used in every part of Australian regional culture, all around the country. It's become a message stick for the survival of those people, for aboriginal people and aboriginal culture.

Dig into the roots of culture, and it will grow. It's like a grass that is growing, and it cannot stop, and music is like the fertilizer for that.

I am a Westerner of Westerners!

Whenever I hear the word culture, I reach for my Browning!

I'm not suggesting our music is the only music, but I am suggesting that there are certain elements in America's culture that are so precious that it would be a shame for them to go down the drain.

There is no singular 'reason' why Africans use fractals, any more than a singular reason why Americans like rock music. Such enormous cultural practices just cover too much social terrain.

We never wore burkas because Somalis had our own culture.

A nation is a work of art and a work of time.

Nobody is sure what our culture is or whether we even have a national culture at all.

The greatest guarantee for the preservation of a person’s identity is language and faith, and all Armenians must carry these two values.

Every nation has its own language as well as its own temperament.

The greatest guarantee for the preservation of a person’s identity is language and faith, and all Armenians must carry these two values.

A community having the breadth and scope of a people still cannot claim to be an ethnic community unless and until there emerges from its mentality a distinctive culture particularized by the community's special character.