Nathan Blecharczyk Quotes

I am very happy since when I am in different cities I can experience and learn different cultures!

I make it my business to see or do something cultural in every place I go to. If you don't, you'll get into a state of constant despair.

I think that one of the main privileges of what I do, which I am just starting to learn, is to have the ability to travel all over the world and experience different cultures.

Part of me wonders what it would have been like to have had my first experience of India in a normal way, rather than through the eyes of a film.

I'm certainly curious about people. As a kid, I moved around a lot. I was raised in a lot of different places, and thanks to working in the movies, I've gotten to keep traveling. I've always been interested in other cultures and languages.

We have an amazing job. We get to travel around the world and experience different cultures and just learn so many things.

I'd never really travelled before, and when we started going places, like Japan, France, Germany and all over Europe, it's been interesting to see how different cultures work. But to be there playing music makes it so much better.

What we've demonstrated is there's an immense appetite to travel more authentically and immerse yourself in culture... as opposed to having a commoditised experience.

I have always been intrigued by other cultures, and traveling to foreign lands has always been a part of my personal passion for learning about our world.

I like to live like a local. When you are somewhere, you have to try to take the culture of that place and try to adapt.

You experience other cultures to give you a kind of shock that makes you look at your own culture. You appreciate it more as a result of being out of it, but you also realise there are some things lacking in your culture.

You know that wherever you go, not everyone will speak your language. But go and experience the local culture and try to pick up as much as you can. I certainly think going forward - away from football because football is just a small part of your life - you will grow as a person.

One of the great ambitions is to discover the diversity of the world, to discover who inhabits the world.

The films I enjoy seeing are those that reveal lives I was unaware of... in different cultures or whatever.

I could do one show after another in China for the rest of my life and still die ignorant. There's a lot of places left to go.

Those who visit foreign nations, but associate only with their own country-men, change their climate, but not their customs. They see new meridians, but the same men; and with heads as empty as their pockets, return home with traveled bodies, but untravelled minds.

A man who has not been in Italy, is always conscious of an inferiority.

I really knew when I started photographing I wanted it to be a way of knowing different cultures, not just in other countries but in this country, too, and I knew I wanted to be a voyeur.

A person can do a lot of reading and research as I have done. I went to Spain and spent a whole summer there with my family, immersing myself in the culture. But all that isn't really necessary to experience the music.

I'm a culture vulture, and I just want to experience it all.

I always spend time exploring the customs and attitudes of the countries I'm using for locations, and interviewing the people who live there. I've visited over 90 countries thus far.

We just kind saw the images and knew the cliches, so to have the opportunity to go there and learn something about Russian music and about Russian people and to see things apart from being a tourist.

China was the first time I truly felt like an outsider. I fell in love with the process of trying to become intimate with the culture.

Travelers never think that they are the foreigners

I love getting to have different food and getting to be around different people and different cultures and different ways people look at life. It's really kind of helped me open up my mind and see the world from different perspectives.