Lily Tomlin Quotes

Cultures, along with the religions that shape and nurture them, are value systems, sets of traditions and habits clustered around one or several languages, producing meaning: for the self, for the here and now, for the community, for life.

Medical training taught me the art of breaking down the complex maze of stories, symbols and rituals into clear systems. You could say that it helped me figure out the anatomy and physiology of mythology and its relevance in a society more incisively. How is it that no society can, or does, exist without them?

In Africa, music is for everything, Music was originally used for community. That was what music was for.

Writing is about culture and should be about everything. That's what makes it what it is.

Culture is the arts elevated to a set of beliefs.

If you want to understand a nation, look at its dancers and listen to its folk songs—don't pay any attention to its politicians.

Culture is more important than rules and regulations.

Culture is the way for a country to know itself.

Image-making, along with storytelling and music, is the stuff that culture is made out of.

We must preserve our cultural identity.

The culture of a civilization is the art and literature through which it rises to consciousness of itself and defines its vision of the world.

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

Culture is everything. Culture is the way we dress, the way we carry our heads, the way we walk, the way we tie our ties - it is not only the fact of writing books or building houses.

We have a unique culture.

Culture is important. Wars are fought over culture. It's not just about folks showing up and being hoity-toity. Culture is about definition.

American art ought to be monumental, in keeping with American life.

Culture has no logic.

Culture is a part of basic human nature, of deep humanity.

All culture, all important culture, is always linked to how people express and experience being alive.

Cultural activity is what makes us human.

Hollywood and film portray who we are as a people and what we value as a culture.

In reality, you just don't see many Samoan artists. Culturally, it's just not something that's really emphasized much - at least, hand-drawn art.

Music is so important. Because in Chicago it's up to us to tell the stories nobody else will.

Being British, I don't really have a way of expressing myself in conversation. Music transcends language.