US Culture Quotes

I didn't move to Miami to live in a Spanish-speaking province.

When I think about country music, I think about America.

The important thing for me is that I try to understand the culture. Everything I thought I knew about the country was either through TV, music, movies or hopping in and out when I did shows. You can't just get the US through being in Miami, LA and New York. Middle America is the place to understand real America.

For many, perhaps most, Americans, markets are sacrosanct. Most people in the United States cannot even envision a society that doesn't revolve around an untrammeled market.

I believe the people of the U.S. are peace-loving people.

I just saw a recent television program about art, and it was saying how from the end of the Second World War, so much of what our culture is comes from not just the United States in general, but New York in particular. In my case, I can't imagine my life without the extraordinary bebop jazz revolution in New York in late '40s and '50s.

I paint the American scene.

When you consider America, there are hundreds of millions of people who have smoked marijuana illegally.

My own thinking has evolved. You find Africanisms in American speech. You find an African influence on United States culture. There are all kinds of Africanisms in America, as you would expect, if you really thought about it... That whole thing is much broader; the influence is much broader than I first understood.

To me, all music that is made under the umbrella of the United States of America is Americana music.

California ... is the place that sets the trends and establishes the values for the rest of the country; like a slow ooze, California culture spreads eastward across the land.

Guns are part of the American identity.

The American dream seems to be thriving in Europe not at home.

I recognize very much in Hopper that it does look like the United States; it looks like the 30's and my first impressions of everything, all of which I have to deal with and which gets mixed up in my work and probably gets mixed up in everybody else's work too.

The first weeks in the US, I was asking, ‘Where is my food?’

On a scale of the United States, the Hollywood influence on what comes out, that's not the majority views of across the country. What we read in Us Weekly or People magazine, or Entertainment Tonight, it's not what the majority of the country is thinking.

The education, the cultural awareness, is different in Europe, especially in France, from that in the United States. So I think the public will be much more appreciative of many images.

The United States is the only nation in the world whose entire culture was formed entirely in the age of print.

I think Americans are very patriotic.

Americans love popcorn, and their love doesn't quit.

People in the United Kingdom and outside the United States share my bemusement with the United States that America doesn't share with itself.

Some of the best pop music ever has come out of the States.

I was very affected as a foreigner coming from Copenhagen, which is the safest, most liberal town in the entire galaxy. I was like an alien stranded in a strange land for the first time in the U.S.

In America, there is no racial segregation. I'm not sure I'm quite familiar with this phrase.

Is there intellectual life in America? At present, the answer is no.