Culture Quotes - Page 64

We lived on a farm in the English countryside, where we wrote a lot of our music. You really were treated like an artist during those days-not like product, which is now the mode.

Many talk about a guest worker program. I think most reasonable people believe that a guest worker program in the farming industry, perhaps in the gardening and landscape industries, is reasonable.

In an approximate way, the logic of commons has been understood for a long time, perhaps since the discovery of agriculture or the invention of private property in real estate.

The danger of our culture.- We belong to a period of which the culture is in danger of being destroyed by the appliances of culture.

The concentration and reciprocal effect of industry and agriculture conjoin in a growth of productive powers, which increases more in geometrical than in arithmetical proportion.

Hendrix is one of the most revolutionary figures in today's pop culture, musically and sociologically.

Reason alone is insufficient to make us enthusiastic in any matter.

Man's biological weakness is the condition of human culture.

I'm deeply disturbed by the ways in which all of our cultures are demonizing the other. This is why I'm launching a new initiative, and it's to help all of us, myself included, to counteract the tendency to otherize.

Possession and exorcism is something that’s in every religion and every culture. It’s a real primal fear: Is the body a vessel for our spirits? What happens if something else takes over it? Where does the spirit go?

When I hear the word 'culture', I reach for my checkbook.

In the modern technoindustrial culture, it is possible to proceed from infancy into senility without ever knowing manhood.

The world is organised by the war economy and the war culture.

If we don't take care of our customers, someone else will.

While her lips talked culture, her heart was planning to invite him to tea

We're the biggest food and agriculture company in the world.

Did somebody dream there is some way that the government doesn’t need us? What in the hell would they do with the farm program without us?

It's a character I've created. Actually, that's pretty much the opposite of me, off a farm in the Midwest.

DJ culture is all about collage - sampling, splicing, dicing - everything is part of the mix, and there are no boundaries between sound sources. When you apply the same logic to the environment, there's a lot of room for mapping sampling techniques to the environment itself.

Now it seems like there is no culture. The school of fish are all separate. Everybody's just randomized, listening to their own thing in their earbuds... That's going to be the downfall of music, if anything. Nobody enjoys one thing anymore.

I think it's very important for us to start to build a culture of resistance, because what we're doing isn't working, clearly.

Complexity and profundity have been equated by the academic culture just as fame and significance have been conflated by the popular culture. Fame and significance have nothing to do with one another; and complexity and profundity have nothing to do with one another.

I've got a farm in England where I breed horses.

Our society offers little in the way of reeducation for those who have been torn away from their traditional culture and suddenly exposed to all the blandishments of mass culture-even the churches which follow the hillbillies to the city often make use of the same "hard sell" that the advertisers and politicians do.

Whenever, then, the usual and ordinary rate of the profits of agricultural stock, and all the outgoings belonging to the cultivation of land, are together equal to the value of the whole produce, there can be no rent.