Quotes About Tradition

It is great to be Greek, because I have one of the best heritages in the world.

If you want to talk about cultural appropriation, we have to go back to the Greeks.

I remember that alongside the expected dishes, our family had a few of our own specials too like 'meen manga curry,' which had a yummy green colored gravy.

We grew up fishing, and we take it seriously.

I grew up Seventh Day Adventist.

In Maori culture there's a lot of humor and just as quickly we are able to express grief.

When I do a press roll, I use the traditional grip. Sometimes I flip it around; for a louder crack on the two and four, I use the new grip.

I really like gross Chinese things.

I have worked with the tavil and the mridangam all my artistic life. My style does have a strong grounding in rhythm.

Your parents would not be happy if you came home and said you wanted to grow up to be a chef or a rock star.

I love the whole Punjabi culture as I have seen it very closely in Delhi in my growing up years.

It was the dumbest thing I had ever seen, but it's a family thing, and I guess it's clean.

We try to do too many things that used to be in the men's domain, and we try to do them like men's. I'm a prude - I guess you can tell that - but I think, 'Why would you do that?'

Now they have banging guitar and no bass and call it rock, but that's not what I call rock.

Why did they keep changing guitars and amplifiers when they were perfect? They did the same things with cars, if you ask me. They forgot how to make them right, because they focused on style and bells and whistles.

Dawes is a rock 'n' roll band playing guitars, writing songs, working in a certain tradition. Through our attitude and personality, I hope, you can hear a song and go, 'That's a Dawes song.'

I'm from the gulf coast of Louisiana.

I come from a family that has been here for almost 200 years. My ancestors started a very dangerous gunpowder business in 1802, and my great- grandfather and his father were both killed in gunpowder explosions.

Guns in America have an atavistic force. Possessing them, or the act of not possessing them, is an identity that seems to pass from father to son.

My grandfather was a direct descendent of Guru Nanak, which my father also carried forth.

Who says I'm gonna marry another guy? In Europe it's not like in America, where you set a date.

I'm from a Gypsy background!

My family is basically Gypsies - for real.

All my family back to the 1700s were water Gypsies. My brothers and me, we were the first ones to be born on dry land. All the rest of them were born on barges in the canals.