Quotes About Tradition

We play our Irish songs a bit more loosely.

We're playing the same songs, the same way, that we have for years.

In India, romantic and sad songs will never die.

My grandma was a church organist for 40 years, and she got me into jazz music and great songwriters, Harold Arlen, George Gershwin, all those folks. I can't do it, but I have a profound respect for it.

Traditionally, songwriters can't sing. And that holds true in my case, also.

My idea is to take the improvisational excitement that takes place with Carnatic music and juxtapose that in different sonic contexts.

You might sooner get lightning out of incense smoke than true action or passion out of your modern English religion.

Boomer Sooner!

Cooking has always sort of been my way to soothe the soul, if you will. I grew up around my great-great-grandmother cooking, and that's eventually where I learned a lot of things. So food has always been used to ease and comfort.

The lullabies I grew up with were usually Brazilian religious ones, and they still soothe me into sleep.

There is no language like the Irish for soothing and quieting.

I actually feel sorry for people who have nothing to do on Christmas Day other than watch an NBA game.

I am hopelessly devoted to paper. Nothing against e-readers of any sort - anything that keeps people reading is okay by me - but I am not, historically, an early adopter of such things.

Women didn't go to school when they were young because parents preferred to send their brothers. The women couldn't access loans in their own right because the banks sought the approval of a male dependent.

If Obama was fundamentally different from prior presidents, Trump seems to violate every tenet of what Americans have long sought as our national image.

Soul music as we've always known it hasn't changed. There are different players now with different attitudes, but there is nothing new being done musically.

I got tired of seeing people rush through the national anthem so they could have their popcorn and get to the game. Nobody ever sang the anthem with soul. It was always done clinically and they always stuck to the original. I put feeling into it. I sang it in a soulful manner.

I believe in the old, because it shows us where we come from - where our souls have risen from. And I believe in the new, because it gives us the opportunity to create who we are becoming.

That Mississippi sound, that Delta sound is in them old records. You can hear it all the way through.

My grandma's chicken soup is amazing: so simple, so full of flavour, and so yummy.

It is impossible to think of any good meal, no matter how plain or elegant, without soup or bread in it.

You cannot come to a Nigerian restaurant without having pepper soup.

Maybe it is not just social history - the belt buckles and soup ladles - that connects us to the past, but a grander idea, an idea that shared memory is essential to being human.

When I was a little girl, if I didn't eat my soup, my mother would say, 'You have to think of all the Chinese children who have nothing to eat.' But now, for my children, Chinese people make everything, and for my grandchildren, they buy everything.