Quotes About Tradition

The Breton peasant is said to have a hard head. He is obstinate and resists outside pressure to alter his creed or his customs.

Within a life that seems uncomfortably scripted by family and community pressures, hyper-religiosity can provide a way to break with parental expectations and flee from parental control.

China is a civilization pretending to be a nation.

My mother's father was Jewish, so she was very conservative. She liked little, pretty music-orchestral-type things.

Playing bridge is a pretty old fashioned thing in a way that I really like.

At the end of the day, I am a Kathak dancer!

I sew my own shoes. Other male dancers don't, but I like it one way, and I've learned to do it that way.

I come from a family with many dancers, my aunts learnt dance, so did Kamal Haasan and, as a child I learnt it, too.

I started dancing when I was three, Scottish dancing.

My dad, well, he sells tractors, just like my granddad, and I'm darn proud of that.

I've always had darts around me growing up because my family has always played it.

Sometimes I think the family I was brought up in was 100 years out of date.

In Afghan culture, you don't date - you marry. Even talking to boys before marriage brings great shame to your family.

Anytime I had a date, it was at the Sadie Hawkins Day dance.

My parents are conservative. They really weren't in support of us dating before marriage.

'In the Pines' is a very old song dating back to slavery. Lead Belly made it popular.

I don't cook. My mother didn't cook. My daughter doesn't cook.

In Europe, I do see a lot of women who were fans years ago bring their daughters and sons to shows and that's how my music gets passed down, and I love that.

There are no Dave Marrs anymore.

Every other year, I spend Thanksgiving in England with Dave Clark from the Dave Clark Five and a bunch of other people.

It's Frederick Dierks Bentley, but my whole family goes by their middle name - my sister, my brother. So from day one, I've always been called Dierks.

I've been going to China every year now for more than a decade.

When you learn Indian classical music, sometimes it takes decades to perfect a raga.

When December comes, can 'The Nutcracker' be far behind? No, it can't - not in America, anyway.