Quotes About Tradition

People are drawn to radical Islam because they feel their traditional ways of life threatened by the influx of KFC and Hollywood movies and the like.

I grew up with the classics. My mom and I would sit and watch 'Singin' in the Rain' and 'White Christmas' - those kind of movies.

I've got to where I am in life not because of something I brought to the world but through something I found - the wealth of African culture.

To study music, we must learn the rules. To create music, we must break them.

What makes bebop legitimate is the fact that when it was done, it was illegitimate.

There is still plenty of good music to be written in C major.

Others are keen to see if natives other than us live better than we do, without heat in pipes, ice in boxes, sunshine in bulbs, music on disks, or images gliding over a pale screen.

The music of Africa is big sound: it's the sound of a community

A gentleman is someone who knows how to play the banjo and doesn't.

I am more and more convinced that music is not, in essence, a thing which can be cast into a traditional and fixed form. It is made up of colors and rhythms.

Golf is a game invented by the same people who think music comes out of a bagpipe.

The roots of Cuban music are in my head.

I want to reach the point where people hear my name and immediately think of real country music.

Remember when you used to watch TV in the Sixties and you'd see Perry Como in a cashmere sweater? That's what rock 'n' roll is becoming. It's your parents' music.

In Hungary all native music, in its origin, is divided naturally into melody destined for song or melody for the dance.

When people say you're doing something radical in rock or dance music, I'm not sure how special that is. What we do is so old-fashioned. It's like trying to do something innovative in tap-dancing.

My dad's Irish music was such a huge influence.

I never taught people where to step on '2', because when I learned how to dance there was no '2'. We just danced to the music.

They flat their fifths, we drink ours.

The history of a people are found in its songs.

The death of classical music is perhaps its oldest continuing tradition.

What's New Orleans without music? And what's music without dancing?

African music, though very old, is always being rediscovered in the West.

New music? Hell, there's been no new music since Stravinsky.