Quotes About Heritage

It is a wise tune that knows its own father, and I like my music to be the legitimate offspring of respectable parents.

My goal was always to be involved in music that would outlive me. And maybe that's actually happening.

I play American and World music, Texas style.

I have such a deep love for traditional country music.

I think America concedes that true American music has sprung from the Negro.

Country music originates with the colloquial, rural aspects of white America. It's really, truly, rural white America's blues.

I have observed, too, that the people of the many countries that I have visited are showing an ever increasing interest in the classical and traditional music of their own cultures.

The first music I was ever exposed to was Irish folk music, like the Clancy Brothers. My father plays that and Christmas songs.

We have inherited a great music. This music is a holdover. It comes with us like the skin, the texture of our hair. It's our memory banks.

I embrace country music because of love, a love of what I came from.

My mother was a music teacher and my grandfather was a professor of music, and there was a lot of singing in the family. It wasn't like trained singing or anything like that, but it was singing.

Mexican music runs through my veins. I loved it. Growing up, my father didn't allow us to listen to English music at home. That's all I heard. I had no choice.

A lot of English traditional music is guesswork anyway, so it's very difficult for people to be vehemently opposed to experimenting with it.

I mainly play traditional music, which by definition is music that you've heard someone else doing.

I'm not suggesting our music is the only music, but I am suggesting that there are certain elements in America's culture that are so precious that it would be a shame for them to go down the drain.

It's not very long ago that we were all singing country music. And country music is equally black as it is white and that's important to recognize.

The national park is the best idea America ever had.

The wild places are where we began. When they end, so do we.

Don't eat anything your great-grandmother wouldn't recognize as food.

What a country chooses to save is what a country chooses to say about itself.

I plead for conservation of human culture, which is much more fragile than nature herself. We needn't destroy other cultures with the force of our own.

You can do what you want. But it's nature to be with your own. I want to be with my own.

Your descendants shall gather your fruits.

The tragic side of many architectural enterprises is that they destroy natural beauties which are a priceless possession and cannot be replaced.