Cultural Reach Quotes

It's hard to make a cultural phenomenon every time.

There are people doing yoga in New York, dancing around; that's the power of India. You go to a nightclub somewhere in Spain and there's Amitabh Bachchan on the screen there, dancing around. That's the power of India. That's the power of Indian people.

Content that's generated out of America, whether it be film or music, has, in my opinion, much greater impact in sustaining our credibility and our place as a cultural capital. This is our great export.

The wider any culture is spread, the thinner it gets.

Americans have been tremendously fortunate in poetry, regarding both the quantity and quality of poetry produced. Unfortunately, it remains in schools and universities; it is not widely distributed.

For every rockabilly festival staged here, there are 10 held overseas.

As a Latin musician, I understand that there are so many places where people don't know who I am. My albums never came out in Australia or Japan.

You are the most powerful cultural force in the world.

It's one thing to be writing in South or Latin America, where, except for Brazil, every country, however small and hard to find on a map, speaks Spanish, but quite another to be writing in, say, Hungary, a landlocked nation of 10 million people, with a language that very few people outside Hungary can read or speak.

It's so lovely to know that people who you would never think know about Bollywood, they know about Bollywood.

The definition of superpower cannot mean only military might anymore.

I think that 'Twilight' is so big that nothing can affect it.