Quotes About Tradition

When the family gets together once a year in Georgia for New Year's Eve, we listen to music, all kinds of music. That's what we do.

We only got clothing once a year, like, right before school began. It's like, that's when you got your clothing.

Genius can probably run on ahead and seek out new ways. But the good artists who follow after genius - and I count myself among these - have to restore the lost connection once more.

One day I look forward to making dinner for my husband and children. I don't want to be a career feminist.

One of the things is challenging yourself to do a Rome show when everybody's done a Rome show. To find some aspect of food culture or chef culture that people can look at in a new way.

Continuity is one of the things I like about New England.

As I got more involved in music, one of the things that made me excited, from the time I was a child, was that clear link between our ancestors and the sounds we hear today.

Where do I begin with 'The Godfather?' It's like explaining why the 'Bible' is so popular. I'll always remember seeing the first one because it was the only time I went to the movies with my grandfather.

Diwali is really a happy time. It's a festival of lights. That's the only time when the entire family comes together and celebrates together.

It's a mark of any icon that it should be open to iconoclasm.

Social media opened up basically every opportunity for me because, traditionally, I wouldn't be thought of as a model.

The more Opening Days the better. It never gets old. It's one of those things where as it comes you embrace it, get ready, you still get those butterflies, which means you care.

My grandma, Nai Nai, has had the clothes she wants to be buried prepared since she was like 60. I guess there is an openness to discussing. It's part of life. It's part of the every day.

The opera always loses money. That's as it should be. Opera has no business making money.

I feel like it's a real shame that my generation doesn't make an appearance at the opera.

There was always dance in opera until people forgot to keep it going.

Increasingly, I find myself drawn to classic forms - to Euripides, Shakespeare and grand opera.

Once, the arts were opera, ballet, classical music, and everything else deemed highbrow.

Opera is too obsessed with buildings.

Opera needs a major makeover; the large opera houses are too in thrall to their conservative patrons.

I am rooted in flamenco. At 13, I fell in love with it, but I couldn't sing it. To sing flamenco is like being a kind of opera singer. You have to learn how.

I think marriage is a cultural thing - it's my opinion that nature doesn't tell someone to get married.

The fact is, the public make use of the classics of a country as a means of checking the progress of Art. They degrade the classics into authorities. They use them as bludgeons for preventing the free expression of Beauty in new forms.

You are remarkably modern, Mabel. A little too modern, perhaps. Nothing is so dangerous as being too modern. One is apt to grow old-fashioned quite suddenly.