Quotes About Tradition

When the slaves left Africa, they left us this music. They left us blues.

The blues is played everywhere. There's no place I've been where they don't have blues or aren't interested in blues.

I haven't lost my blues roots.

British blues was my favorite music, and it still is.

There's always talk about the blues dying out, but it won't.

I'm interested in Qawwali and the blues.

Being raise in England, we were all raised on blues and country.

I'm English. All we do is blush.

In many ways, our marriage is anything but traditional. When I started my blog in 2006, Ladd was the only one that really understood what I was doing, probably before I even understood what I was doing. He wasn't tech-savvy, but he just got it and was totally on board with it.

My mother had a cotillion, but she wanted to be bohemian.

Even Bollywood films set in rural areas have music with a western touch. So, this has resulted in listeners losing touch with their cultural roots.

My daughter is married here in Patiala and I have shared a bond with Punjabi as a language.

Hair in the black community is such a big thing culturally. The barbershop is a place for black men to socialise, catch up and bond. It's the same for black women in the salon. Going there is my favourite thing to do in the week. You catch up with people, someone comes around with food, someone else is selling something.

Europe has been in my bones.

I basically only read books that are over 2,000 years old.

I'm from outside of Boston, and in Boston, people are so passionate about their Irishness.

All my family's from Boston.

You know, I'm from Boston, and in Boston, you are born with a baseball bat in your hand.

I grew up in Boston, and we'd have every Thanksgiving at my parents' house there.

We love our history in Boston.

History is very much bound up in family experience.

My Grandad boxed.

On Boxing Day, we always go for a walk in our wellies with the dogs, no matter where we are.

I knew real show business from my father, who had been an actor since he left the world of boxing.