Quotes About Tradition

Rap has been a path between cultures in the best tradition of popular music.

Classical music is an unbroken, living tradition that goes back over 1,000 years, and every one of those years has had something unique and powerful to say to us about what it's like to be alive.

I can't really say why everyone loves Bob Wills' music, but I have yet to meet a person who didn't like it.

When I think about country music, I think about America.

I learned from my uncle that jazz, like symphony music, was built to last.

I think folk music helps reinforce your sense of history. An old song makes you think of times gone by.

The older ideas are rendering more and more bland music.

There's a similarity between European and North African folk musics.

Culture changes, fashions change, customs change. Great music is immortal.

Today the most outlaw thing you can possibly do in Nashville, Tennessee, is play country music.

Can you imagine that Cuba and Europe's youth, who had forgotten about traditional music, who only thought of rock music, are now looking back towards their grandparents? That is a phenomenon.

I don't dig that two-beat jive the New Orleans cats play. My boys and I have to have four heavy beats to the bar and no cheating.

When's the last time you walked by a pub in Dublin and heard Irish music? When's the last time you ordered a coffee and heard an Irish accent?

Country music has always been about as close to R&B as you can possibly get. We're storytellers.

In the tradition of the classic songwriter rooms like The Bluebird in Nashville, Strange Brew is a gift to the music community in Austin, for artists and audiences alike

Music changes, but there's a timeless touch that we put to it, which I think is really important.

I don't think about music as being new or modern. I just play.

Country music is me, it's what I've grown up with, and it's what I do.

Yes, my first memory of singing, in general, was of a Christmas song. And then listening to Christmas music was really the first music I was ever connected to.

Even experimental composers, revolutionary composers, self-styled radicals are, in writing revolutionary music, recognizing the music that preceded them precisely by trying to avoid it.

Classical music is a wonderful 1200 year-old tradition that witnesses everything that it has meant and what it means right now to be human.

You can't play anything on a horn that Louis Armstrong hasn't played

For as long as we can trace back human life, there's always been some sort of music - ceremonies, rituals. It's part of the human makeup.

Classic music will always come across better on the ice because skating has such a rich history, rooted in tradition.