Mohit Chauhan Quotes

Nobody else in the world has a form like the Native American musical, and Americans should be very proud.

The people of Texas are rightly proud of their own, just like the French and the Italians, but visiting artists have often been given a shot in the history of art.

There are a lot of wonderful things created in our culture that have been ignored that can speak to them.

I have Aboriginal roots on my father's side, and have always indentified with that spirit. I feel a lot of my music comes from that place.

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.

If we are to preserve culture we must continue to create it.

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.

Art is the permanence of a civilization.

New Orleans is like my blood; it's not going anywhere. And then I just take different things that I've learned over the years and add them to what I'm doing with the natural New Orleans sound.

The boys know they're from Southeast Asia, and they have their food and their music and their friends, and they have a pride particular to them.

I believe that the arts of a culture are terribly important and yet almost indefensible.

Sometimes we make films just for our people, and it doesn't reach to anyone.

I love Chennai and its people. My mother always tells me, 'You should have been born a South Indian!'

I am a hardcore Bihari boy. I am born and brought up in Bihar, and for me, ethnicity is not a problem and is inbuilt in me.

I wanted the music to sound, like, made in Mexico. I wanted to connect to my roots.

We have inherited a great music. This music is a holdover. It comes with us like the skin, the texture of our hair. It's our memory banks.

[ My time and our common culture] it's what I'm photographing, and I'm very involved with that.

Art is how a culture records its life, how it poses questions for the next generation and how it will be remembered.

I kept my culture. I kept the music of my roots. Through my music I became this voice and image of Africa and the people without even realising.

I always tell my Western friends that it is best to keep your own tradition. Changing religion is not easy and sometimes causes confusion. You must value your tradition and honor your own religion.

I've written a lot of novels for teens and tweens ... but I'd never really tackled the North Carolina side of me. And it's so strong and so important, and yet I hadn't acknowledged it. And so one of the things I wanted to do in "Shine" is take that on.

With the exception of my wife and children, there's nothing I value more than my Oklahoma heritage.

Weirdly, when I was in drama school my accent probably got stronger because of that sense of identity when you leave home and go to somewhere where there are loads of people from different places. Holding on to being Welsh and where I was from was a real crutch for me.

By giving our audience intimate access to the lives of musicians, we hope to raise awareness of the region's beautiful cultural heritage and present a more nuanced portrait of its people.

The American dream has always depended on the dialogue between the present and the past. In our architecture, as in all our other arts-indeed, as in our political and social culture as a whole-ours has been a struggle to formulate and sustain a usable past.