Donatella Versace Quotes

Modern culture is a tremendous force.

In this century of hyper-postmodern ideals, with the digital future, we're segmented into different people, places, and things in a constant state of change.

People live longer today than they ever have. They live happier lives, have more knowledge, more information. All this is the result of communications technology. How is any of that bad?

We are effectively living in a world of communications and information abundance.

The late 20th century had just enough communication abilities to allow superstar-ness and communality to happen. It was a musical renaissance that rivals the visual one that happened in the 1400s.

We're in a 21st century, transparent and connected world.

We didn't understand irony yet in the '80s; we just kind of existed at face value, so there was no nerd cool yet because the digital revolution was still in its infancy.

I was born in the technology era.

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

I think there's a gigantic generation gap in terms of how people understand the Internet and how much they think technology is an important factor in social change.

In Japan, Australia, and England there is such a strong youth culture.

Everything is so tech now; everyone is so connected that way.

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.

The world has changed. People have amazing access to whatever they want, whenever they want it.

I actually think that history has fed off the restlessness of cyber space, of kind of the frantic, segmented nature of the way we lead our lives. People want to be connected.

The Internet is overrated. It's much smaller an innovation than people think it is. I don't think it's changed the way anybody makes music.

Saudi Arabia has also changed. People today are connecting with each other all across the world through small gadgets and television. It's a different society.

If the end of the twentieth century can be characterized by futurism, the twenty-first can be defined by presentism.

The 1990's sure aren't like the 1980's.

I saw the Internet as being something which would allow power mongers to control us, and that we would willingly go to that if it promised us salvation - if it promised to show us who we were and let us find ourselves as we had, uniquely in our generation, through rock music.

American Pie speaks to the loss that we feel. That's why that song has found the niche that it has.

Look, I live in the modern world as much as anyone else.

We're living in an era of unprecedented change, and I want to be a part of documenting it.

World events can shape culture. Music is either a soundtrack for or a narration of changing times. And who knows how that's going to go?

Music is part of history, and our history has lessons that cannot be separated from our greatest music.