M.I.A. Quotes About Culture

Quotes about: Culture

• It could be the sort of declining grip of the American MTV-nation culture-the fact that MTV doesn't play so much music anymore.

  M.I.A.

  Mtv, Play, Culture

  "Kehinde Wiley". Interview with M.I.A., www.interviewmagazine.com. November 19, 2008.

• With homogenized culture, even if you feel frustrated, you'd have to write a Taylor Swift song to get heard.

  M.I.A.

  Song, Writing, Frustrated

  Source: www.macleans.ca

• Now, [hip-hop/grime artists] Stormzy, Skepta, or the Section Boyz have to be validated by Drake, Rihanna or Beyoncé. They're rolled into this one urban culture bubble; it's not really to do with, "I'm specifically f - ked off about my country and what's going on in my town." We're very much only showing success to artists who impress American artists, and I'm one of them.

  M.I.A.

  Country, Artist, Hip Hop

  Source: www.macleans.ca

• I don't have a community like a black community to belong to [with] a musical platform that's been built for years and years and years, or the film-making culture, and I don't have the white one to belong to.

  M.I.A.

  Years, White, Community

  Source: www.macleans.ca

• If right now, culture's so divisive, it just leaves these millions of people like me out.

  M.I.A.

  People, Culture, Like Me

  Source: www.macleans.ca

• Instead of going to war, we should put the money into arts and culture and let creative people define what Britain is.

  M.I.A.

  Art, War, People

  Source: thequietus.com

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