Quotes About Tradition

I have a huge amount of respect for all Japanese designers because I think there is consistency and respect to craft.

I would love to live in Japan again, but would need to really commit to learning the language before doing it. Both my parents speak Japanese fluently, so I suppose it would feel like a tradition.

I'm fascinated by Japanese cuisine.

The Japanese actually approach the music on a high level. It's always been on a high level.

Here's the irony in what I do: When I go out to eat, I like classic French food. I like amazing Japanese food that has such a history that it goes back hundreds of years. And I also like really innovative food as well.

Japanese are very proud and workaholics. Proud workaholics.

What resonates culturally with me about Japanese style is that it is very covered up but very sensual.

I would like to know more about how to cook Japanese food. I love it, but don't know much about it.

It's true that I pick up many ideas from different Japanese things.

One of my favorite Japanese foods is called natto. It's fermented soybeans. I grew up in Japan eating natto. It's definitely an acquired taste. It's basically smelly.

I always liked jazz. And my people liked the old blues, race records and the doo-wop and all that.

The day of the great jazz improviser who doesn't know how to read music is over.

When I was coming up, a lot of serious jazz players couldn't stand funk.

There's so much jealousy in our business. They don't like anything new or different. They don't like change.

Jeopardy' is an institution, and people know what to expect from it and what the game's about.

I have always played into the belief that you are only ever borrowing the jersey; you never own the jersey because someone has gone before you and there is going to be someone after you, so it's a case of giving the jersey maximum respect.

Edmonton has such a great history. It makes coming to the rink special to know those former players wore the jersey and had so much success here.

My family has been rooted and intertwined with Jerusalem for generations, and I am among those who say every day, 'May You return to Your city, Jerusalem, with compassion.'

During the first 13 centuries after the birth of Jesus in Bethlehem, no one thought of setting up a creche to celebrate Christmas. The pre-eminent Christian holiday was Easter, not Christmas.

Jewishness is a very big part of my identity. I am a proud Jew, I would say, who doesn't practice very actively.

You can take a Jew out of a shtetl, but you cannot take a shtetl out of a Jew.

Exercise? A Jew doesn't exercise.

Truth be told, for a 21st Century American Jew there is something hollow in the Seder's liberation story and the commandment to feel as if you were there.

There's no such thing as being a cultural Jew. You're religious or you're not.