Dick Van Dyke Quotes

I think of art as a glue, a cultural and social glue. It's one of the means that has served to show us the things we believe in and the things we celebrate; it has served to reinforce our relationship to each other.

People and their rituals. They cling to things so hard sometimes.

It is not just the Great Works of mankind that make a culture. It is the daily things, like what people eat and how they serve it.

I was always drawn to more the social-expression-of-culture types.

Music is a social act.

Culture is a way of coping with the world by defining it in detail.

I used to think that music was like lace upon a garment, nice to have but not necessary. I have come to believe that music is absolutely essential to our community life.

I do believe that music has an intense power to connect us together, to inspire us to become ourselves.

I came up in Brooklyn singing doo-wop music from the time I was 13 to the time I was 20. That music served a purpose of keeping a lot of people out of trouble, and also it was a passport from one neighborhood to another.

Music creates a certain mood and then people dress accordingly. I think it's all quite closely intertwined.

But I feel music has a very important role in ritual activity, and that being able to join in musical activity, along with dancing, could have been necessary at a very early stage of human culture.

Culture is the arts elevated to a set of beliefs.

Culture is simply a shared way of doing something with passion.

Culture is more important than rules and regulations.

Culture is intangible. It's spiritual. You can't buy it.

Culture is the way for a country to know itself.

Music is basically melody, harmony, and rhythm. But people can do much more with music than that. It can be very descriptive in all kinds of ways, all walks of life.

Our species uses music and dance to express various feelings: love, joy, comfort, ceremony, knowledge, and friendship. And each one is distinct and widely recognized within cultures. Love songs cause us to move slowly and fluidly, for example, while songs of joy inspire us to dance in a full-body aerobic way.

Music has been a huge part of my life, and I feel like it's a part of everyone's.

I've always considered rock 'n' roll, the music and the dancing, an art form.

One of the most extraordinary and all-encompassing forms of communication is music. It reaches places that all kinds of other things cannot reach. I'll put my cards on the table: I think it is our greatest language.

We have a unique culture.

Culture has no logic.

Music and dance have also always been a communal activity, something that everyone participated in. The thought of a musical concert in which a class of professionals performed for a quiet audience was virtually unknown throughout our species' history.

I could quite happily just make music because it conjures up a whole visual world for me in my mind.