Mixing cultures Quotes

I'm a fan of mixing cultures together.

You can't stop what comes into a country, you can be influenced, but you can't stop it, you shouldn't, because it makes all the others interesting, we all get muddled up together, and produce something that belongs to everyone.

My art is based on impurity. You have to mix things from different refined cultures to get something raw, to make it go again.

America, you know, they always separate people because of race. They've been able to convince, 'The niggers are coming.' You know, the diversity that America has is so special. It's starting to really become a cool thing for young people. Not only because there are more mixes of people, but because people are more open-minded about each other. So I think in the future, America has a great, great opportunity, and mostly because of hip-hop.

I think it's good to look at how people lived before, and then take the best bits of that culture and try to mix it in with your own.

I'm from Italy, but when I'm in L.A., I dress a little bit rock and roll.

It seemed [there are] musical nodes on the planet where cultures meet and mix, sometimes as a result of unfortunate circumstances, like slavery or something else, in places like New Orleans and Havana and Brazil. And those are places where the European culture and indigenous culture and African culture all met and lived together, and some new kind of culture and especially music came out of that.

Literally everything good about this culture comes from mixing.

I think Hollywood makes the mistake of mixing all these identities and cultures, mostly from the Middle East.

I'm a little like Marco Polo, going around and mixing cultures.