Philip Glass Quotes

You can't stop what comes into a country, you can be influenced, but you can't stop it, you shouldn't, because it makes all the others interesting, we all get muddled up together, and produce something that belongs to everyone.

So American culture is itself a hybrid and lends itself to use in other people's hybrids.

The mixture of the Trinidadian people and the Indian people has caused a new culture to emerge.

The salt of any interesting civilization is mixture.

The culture of Greece is not the same as the culture of Germany, and to fuse them into a single unit is extremely difficult.

I'm very optimistic because I think that the real strength of a nation like the United States comes from blending cultures. There's no way that you can close the frontiers anywhere. The borders are there to be violated permanently.

Real cultural diversity results from the interchange of ideas, products, and influences, not from the insular development of a single national style.

We also have a cultural phenomenon: the emergence of a global culture, or of cultural globalization.

We live in a global society today where all our cultures intermingle.

I have no doubt that Japan will propagate to China and other countries in the Orient, whose standard of civilization is low, her new civilization, which is a product of harmonizing the Japanese and European civilizations. In a sense Japan may be said to have the mission of harmonizing Eastern and Western civilization and of propagating the new civilization; nay, I do not hesitate to declare that this is her mission

The strength of a culture depends on its capacity to open itself up to other cultures, to integrate itself into them and to integrate them into it.

What goes into the Melting Pot determines what shall come out of it.

When you bring multiple cultures together, there's a degree of push and pull.

Britain is just a melting pot for every culture. Like a pot for every culture around the world mixed into one. Artists over here understand that more.

Israel is a mishmash of other cultures. It's like New Orleans; it's a meltdown of other cultures.

Before, there was a culture that said Mumbai is separate, Telugu films should be separate. Now, everyone is working together. It's cool.

What's interesting about the 21st century is how people deal with cultural history. We don't necessarily feel like there are discrete categories. We consume it as a complete package, whether it's down the street or on the other side of the globe.

I loved this idea of always being a foreigner. There's this thing where people bring cultures, bring the music together. I love it when the music, when the cultures collide and something sort of new comes out of it.

You can begin to see an amalgamation of cultures, the real beginning of one world. Ten years ago, it would have been impossible to imagine a Cockney singing group with a Southern Negro style and Indian and electronic music. I wonder if people have even noticed what a tremendous cultural signal the Beatles are.

I think we are evolving rapidly into one world culture. It's certainly one world economy. With billions of people online, I think we'll appreciate the wisdom in many different traditions as we learn more about them. People were very isolated and didn't know anything about other religions 100 years ago.

The Hispanic culture is finding its way into the American culture. Places like Miami are going to be centers for that influence - places like Los Angeles and, certainly, cities in Texas.

As I stand here today and tell you about these, I am heavy with an awareness of the fact that I am in more than one sense a product of both the Chinese and Western cultures, in harmony and in conflict.

The question was heatedly debated of how much Western culture should be brought into China.

I've benefited from the best of both societies and both cultures, East and West.

I don't think you lose culture because you act different cultures.