Quotes About Tradition

People from New Orleans are extremely prideful.

There's so much music going on in New Orleans.

All New Orleans music is based off dance music, even jazz.

I just want to spearhead and lead a new style of New Orleans music.

Since I'm born here, my music will always have some New Orleans elements.

In New Orleans, we celebrate everything. It's probably the only place you'll see people dancing in a funeral home.

New Orleans is like my blood; it's not going anywhere. And then I just take different things that I've learned over the years and add them to what I'm doing with the natural New Orleans sound.

The only thing we try and do is just be a part of the gumbo that New Orleans is.

Music and dance is part of everything in New Orleans. So I grew up appreciating it all.

Everyone is unique to the way that they dance in New Orleans.

New Orleans is great for a lot of the old-school charm and character.

There is a misconception in our society that only women have to follow the norms of wearing a mangalsutra after marriage. Actually there are a few ornaments which even men are expected to wear after marriage.

For years, I had a Christmas ornament I had bought at a Cracker Barrel that read 'Deck Them Halls, Y'all.' It always tickled me.

I grew up so conservative. I grew up as an orthodox Jew.

My grandmother was a nanny for an Orthodox Jewish family, and she would come home and tell us about that.

Russia is an Eastern Orthodox country.

I came from the most orthodox background you could ask for.

The path I follow is still an Orthodox path. You have to follow a path; otherwise, it becomes a little bit new-age, a bit of this, a bit of that.

In the Orthodox religion, you don't draw the human figure. It's against the rules.

What's really neat about the Orthodox church is that it's like walking back in time 2,000 years to the time of the Apostles, when they created these services. You walk into that and it's really like... living it. They have maintained the truth ever since the beginning.

There's a gray area between Conservative and Orthodox people, for whom you don't screw around with the mezuzah, you don't mess with the holy melodies.

I come from an orthodox Muslim family.

I was brought up in a very traditional way by my grandparents in an orthodox Tamil-Brahmin family.

To the uninitiated, the Hasidim constitute a rather homogeneous sect of orthodox Jewry, but this is far from being true.