Cultural Influencers Quotes

Hip-hop artists, especially the older ones, are the ones who knew hip-hop was a worldwide phenomenon before the mainstream caught on, so hip-hop artists are forward thinkers. We want to stay with the new.

There's so many people that follow the trend, and then it gets to a point where it gets a little stale. So, in music; I mean, whoever's the new trendsetter, that's who people follow.

Writers are the main landmarks of the past.

I was really influenced by Joan Didion and Pauline Kael; they were both at the height of their influence when I was coming into my own as a reader.

Luckily, each generation brings forth great writers, actors, directors, and designers.

Musicians have the power to influence people and along with movie makers, they can reach and influence more people than any group of people, more than scientists and certainly more than politicians.

Professional intellectuals are the voice of a culture and are, therefore, its leaders, its integrators and its bodyguards.

Poets are the leaven in the lump of civilization.

Artists are the gate keepers of truth. We are civilization’s radical voice.

In Europe, people in the arts are considered part of the intelligentsia; they are considered part of the elite.

Throughout my life, there are four people I've met who were truly original people. The other three were Groucho Marx, Jim Morrison, and Pablo Picasso.

The people who shape our lives and our cultures have the ability to communicate a vision or a quest or a joy or a mission.

Houston is just where the whole swag comes from, the culture. We have some of the most legendary groups and people coming out the city. I know I have big shoes to fill because these people are legends. I don't want to disappoint the city.

If conquerors be regarded as the engine-drivers of History, then the conquerors of thought are perhaps the pointsmen who, less conspicuous to the traveler's eye, determine the direction of the journey.

If most American cities are about the consumption of culture, Los Angeles and New York are about the production of culture - not only national culture but global culture.

My goal is to spread ideas. Trends always start at the top.

In fashion, you're privileged because you're consistently working with a vanguard of youth.

If you dig deep and keep peeling the onion, artists and freelance writers are the leaders in society - the people who start to get new ideas out.

Artists to my mind are the real architects of change.

The kind of people who can assemble huge crowds into one spot will be the major influences on mass culture in the next decade. The rock enthusiasts have created some of the most exciting theatrical events on the planet.

Burmese authors and artists can play the role that artists everywhere play. They help to mold the outlook of a society - not the whole outlook and they are not the only ones to mold the outlook of society, but they have an important role to play there. And I think if they take up this role seriously and link it to the kind of changes were wish to bring about in our country they could be a tremendous help.

For me, pop culture is very fluid: it's music, it's movies, it's books, it's art, it's tech, it's so many things - and as marketing and brand advocates, we should be able to to take products and services and match them to what's happening in pop culture.

Where are the John Lennons, the Bob Marleys, the Bob Dylans? Where have they gone?

Writers are the moral purifiers of the culture. We may not be pure ourselves but we must tell the truth, which is a purifying act.