Quotes About Tradition

Like the New Orleans tradition that preceded it, and the Swing Era offerings that followed it, Chicago jazz was not just the music of a time and place, but also a timeless style of performance - and for its exponents, very much a way of life - one that continues to reverberate to this day in the works of countless Dixieland and traditional jazz bands around the world. For many listeners, the Chicago style remains nothing less than the quintessential sound of jazz.

Western musicians had to choose between creating sounds and playing notes—and they opted for the latter. But African musicians never got enlightened (or is corrupted the better word?) by Pythagorean thinking.

I do not come bearing a party label on my sleeve - or a quick fix in my back pocket. I do not come with a rigid ideology in my heart - or a soul that tells me to go it alone. I do not come to uproot tradition - or to be imprisoned by it.

Like the average American that I hang out with, and like my father before me, I raised all my children to respect tools and use them wisely and safely.

Fortunately, as it pertains to guns, my dad and uncle introduced me to guns the way it needs to be done: smart, slow and safe.

my mind was consumed with the idea of purdah. From behind it no call for help could be heard. An abandoned species was trapped in a forbidden world. Everything corrupt happened under the shroud, when it was off a faceless and nameless woman appeared.

There was an offer from Tottenham when I was leaving Spain to go to Milan, and at the time, I chose to go to Milan because of their history and tradition in the world of football.

Our nation was built on chips and Spam fritters.

It would seem the people who want to preserve the Penans' way of life are condemning them to a life full of diseases and a shorter life span.

When you are Spanish girl, you got to grow up in a convent if you want to get married.

As a singer, it's basic to preserve what I like to do, which is music, and also to remember my cradlesongs in Spanish.

Well, you know, for me, I think Spanish food is festive.

In French literature, you can choose a la carte; in Spanish literature, there is only the set meal.

I grew up Spanish, so I grew up watching a lot of novellas.

My grandparents don't really listen to pop music, and they only speak Spanish and only listen to Spanish music.

I grew up with a strong Spanish influence. I tried to learn flamenco when I was younger. But it's like my teacher said: 'It takes a lifetime to learn flamenco.'

Spanish Explorers celebrated Christmas in 1539 in the area we now know as the State of Florida.

The telling room is, in Spanish, known as 'el contador.'

When I'm home, my family makes Mexican food, and we listen to a lot of Spanish music together. We love dancing to it.

The Spanish love their paella, and they love their jamon. And they love their football.

My sister loved country music. My mother loved Spanish music. And my dad was into big band music and jazz.

I think Englishmen or Northern Europeans in general are more naturally attracted to the lute than to the guitar, which always seems Spanish exotic - to our ears.

There is probably no oral society that fails to mark the spatial distinction of left and right, peculiar as this distinction may be.

My family is from the south of Italy in this little place called Calabria. It's a big part of my family, the Italian culture. I grew up around it. My parents speak Italian, and I speak Italian.