Miguel McKelvey Quotes

With acting, you are a small part of the creative process, and sometimes it is hard to feel like you are making an impact.

When you decide you're going to join a project, it's all about the gift you're giving the audience.

Things change in different countries as people grow, and as generations change.

The deeper changes wrought by the end of a particular outlaw culture: something will come of that ... and it won't be what we expect.

Pop culture is a reflection of social change, not a cause of social change.

I'm sure I will cause tremendous seismic shifts in the culture again.

I feel like we've had a front row seat for the last 20 years to watching culture and youth.

Art is so valuable that I think its misuse is really dangerous. When it's used well, when it's telling a story well or creating representation or visibility for something that's really lacking, it can really save lives.

All I've ever wanted to do is move the needle on popular culture.

I feel like I influence more than just rap.

When I decided to be a musician I was hoping that it would be one of my contributions in having a positive impact on the world. That's always what I wanted to do.

Every advance in civilization has been denounced as unnatural while it was recent

Were civilization itself to be estimated by some of its results, it would seem perhaps better for what we call the barbarous part of the world to remain unchanged.

In the 21st century, culture is power.

People who want to wage cultural wars ought to keep in mind that cultural views often don't move at all for a very long time, but when they move they can move very fast.

I believe the artist is capable of contributing to the broader evolution of culture in all of its dimensions.

In the history of the collective as in the history of the individual, everything depends on the development of consciousness.

Jesus is interested in changing cultures, not just putting bodies in chairs.

History is not just the evolution of technology; it is the evolution of thought.

Culture has always been more important than politics. Sometimes culture is a mirror that reflects what is; sometimes it's a search-light pointing the way to what will be.

We're going to have to change our traditions, our history.

If my goal is to change Colombia, which it is because I really think Columbia has to change in many, many ways - I think it has to be a very profound, nearly spiritual maturing process in the Colombian society because I think you have to first be aware of what's happening and it's not easy because many people don't want to see what's happening.

We can change the world one thought at a time, one child at a time, one family at a time, one community at a time, one city, one state and one country at a time.

I have long been convinced that families are the primary agents of social change in any society.

Culture is a product of law. And laws create norms for society. This is why anyone who wants to change the culture of a country must try to change the norms of the country.