References in Popular Culture
Eddie Vedder of Pearl Jam has cited the book as an influence on their album, Yield. Quinn responds to the album's significance in relation to the book on his website.
In Rise Against's album The Sufferer and The Witness, Ishmael is on the recommended reading list.
In an interview Animals as Leaders guitarist Tosin Abasi referenced the book as the inspiration for the band name.
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Famous quotes containing the words popular culture, popular and/or culture:
“Like other secret lovers, many speak mockingly about popular culture to conceal their passion for it.”
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“If they have a popular thought they have to go into a darkened room and lie down until it passes.”
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“The white dominant culture seemed to think that once the Indians were off the reservations, they’d eventually become like everybody else. But they aren’t like everybody else. When the Indianness is drummed out of them, they are turned into hopeless drunks on skid row.”
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