There is something terribly wrong with a culture inebriated by noise and gregariousness.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
As a culture I see us as presently deprived of subtleties. The music is loud, the anger is elevated, sex seems lacking in sweetness and privacy.
I think there's something strangely musical about noise.
Maybe silence is something we're uncomfortable with as a culture, I don't know.
When something really bad is going on in a culture, the average guy doesn't see it. He can't. He's average and is surrounded by and immersed in the cant and discourse of the status quo.
The English may not like music, but they absolutely love the noise it makes.
I was raised never to carp about things and never to moan, because in vaudeville, which is my background, you just got on with it through all kinds of adversities.
In country music, one of the ways we may have gone wrong in the past is trying to be politically correct all the time.
Music is always going to be only as sophisticated as the culture that consumes it.
What is acceptable in our culture, I think, is really detrimental. I think we ought to have a little more ownership over the kind of material and the content that we put in front of people, especially young people.
We live in a culture where we're bombarded with so much noise and so much insecurity.