Doug Aitken Quotes

And living in a metropolitan area which is ethnically diverse, our lives are very complicated, so our emotional experiences are going to be varied like that.

I had great relationship with the Hispanic - we had a lot of Hispanics in the school actually from different countries, Venezuela, from Brazil, and they all played soccer, and I was on the soccer team, and I developed great relationships with them.

Culture in general is important, and people's identify is tied up in it. It's how we connect with others.

Culture is this thing that we can exchange among ourselves as human beings to knock aside our differences and build upon our similarities. Cultural exchange is the ultimate exchange.

When you are in an international camp, you are together for 10 days. You eat three times a day together. You spend a lot of time in each other's company. That 10 days is very important, and I think even times for training, times when you eat, meetings, this that and the other, a lot has got to change in that camp.

You can learn a lot when you're around people that are completely different than yourself.

Sports have an amazing way of banding people together from all walks of life, building relationships that would have never happened.

I feel travelling by road helps me connect with more people and understand their problems.

As a child, it was really hard because I'd be thrown into a new school and have to make new friends, or I'd sit in class for months without speaking the language, but as I got older, I welcomed the possibility of discovering new cultures and languages.

American music is always best when it comes from a mixture of things.

I love educating myself on different cultures' dishes and foods that are important and celebrated within that culture. I also think food brings people together. It's unifying!

I was lucky to grow up in a culturally diverse area knowing a lot of different people from all different walks of life.

I talk to everyone, but most of the people I hang out with are Latin.

When I came to India, it's just a different country, but the culture was same that I grew up in.

Music is common language. I can sing 'Bebot' in front of white people and they will dance.

The way theater can bring people together is so powerful.

I like to meet new people and learn about their cultures - new cultures.

New Yorkers know how to borrow wildly. You know, Louis Armstrong was not a New York musician. He went from New Orleans to Chicago to New York, and when he arrived here, he taught those New Yorkers. New York needs that infusion.

Culture is an output of a bunch of inputs that have to come together the right way. Specifically, it is the collision of people and their context, how they interact with each other in that context, and then how that context evolves based on those interactions as they multiply.

I feel like sport can transcend a lot of different things.

I love meeting new people, different cultures. I love that.

I'm very proudly European. I love that we have stories to tell of a place where we come from and we can relate to.

With so many ways to communicate at our disposal, we must not forget the transformative power of a live music experience and genuine human exchange.

In the Navy, you're around a lot of people from different parts of the country. They've got different accents, different upbringings. I learned to love country-western music.

People are so much more interested in making connections, and finding common ground, and sharing experiences than sometimes their governments are.