Quotes About Tradition

I like African music, and I'm a huge Ravi Shankar fan.

Country music originates with the colloquial, rural aspects of white America. It's really, truly, rural white America's blues.

The Medicine Man, taking his music with him, is passing quietly into the Great Silence, where the old songs were "Received in Dreams" by "inner-plane communication."

Jesus never heard of Beethoven and Bach. Why aren't we playing more country music in church ?

I have observed, too, that the people of the many countries that I have visited are showing an ever increasing interest in the classical and traditional music of their own cultures.

An authentic updating of sacred music can take place only in the lineage of the great tradition of the past, of Gregorian chant and of sacred polyphony.

I do not think that music keeps evolving. It evolved through Bach; since then, in my humble opinion, all the innovations added nothing.

One thing I love about Christmas music is that it has a tradition of warmth.

I love Christmas. I really do love Christmas. I love being with my family and I love snow. I love the music and the lights and all of it.

Growing up, I had one very specific idea of what a wedding should be, and that was the wedding of Fraulein Maria and Captain von Trapp in 'The Sound of Music.'

We have inherited a great music. This music is a holdover. It comes with us like the skin, the texture of our hair. It's our memory banks.

My mother was a music teacher and my grandfather was a professor of music, and there was a lot of singing in the family. It wasn't like trained singing or anything like that, but it was singing.

Mexican music runs through my veins. I loved it. Growing up, my father didn't allow us to listen to English music at home. That's all I heard. I had no choice.

I am not doing something that it is experimental music in relation to classical music.

A lot of English traditional music is guesswork anyway, so it's very difficult for people to be vehemently opposed to experimenting with it.

I mainly play traditional music, which by definition is music that you've heard someone else doing.

I'm not suggesting our music is the only music, but I am suggesting that there are certain elements in America's culture that are so precious that it would be a shame for them to go down the drain.

Humans are allergic to change. They love to say, 'We've always done it this way.' I try to fight that. That's why I have a clock on my wall that runs counter-clockwise.

It is the law of nature that woman should be held under the dominance of man.

I believe that cuisine is the most important link between nature and culture.

Forgive him, for he believes that the customs of his tribe are the laws of nature!

Don't eat anything your great-grandmother wouldn't recognize as food.

To eat steak rare . . . represents both a nature and a morality.

We are more sensible of what is done against custom than against nature.