Tradition Quotes - Page 13

Each country is strong on some tradition.

I've always loved musical theater. It's a bit of a family tradition.

If you take my entire golfing life, my favorites are the older courses, the more traditional and the more authentic.

The image of the bank robber I had in mind was more in the European tradition where you'd rob banks and give to the poor, like Robin Hood. It was that mythology. But very early on, my whole preoccupation was with art-studying it, examining every piece of work.

In Italy there is a supreme know-how and a desire to achieve that doesn't really exist anywhere else. You can't make clothes like that in America, because it's just not in the tradition.

I've always said that the Europeans subconsciously knew how to pose because of the culture or tradition of having your portrait made. They were surrounded by these portraits, and subconsciously they were already posing for them.

Our intention is to develop more subtlety in contemporary electronic sounds. We don't like nostalgic projects. We have disparate interests and many philosophical concerns. In the past 10 years, I have realized music in the classical tradition - I have composed for strings, brass, and electronic, and alp-horn!

Hardened round us, encasing wholly every notion we form is a wrapping of traditions, hearsay's, and mere words.

Old custom is hard to break and scarce any man will be led otherwise than seemeth good unto himself.

I prefer to choose which traditions to keep and which to let go.

One must have tradition in oneself, to hate it properly.

Tradition is not something a man can learn; not a thread he picks up when he feels like it; any more than a man can choose his own ancestors. Someone lacking a tradition who would like to have one is like a man unhappily in love.

My views about hell are very traditional.

In many ways I'm an experimental and new music composer that comes from a rural tradition rather than an urban one.

After I removed all the cultural coatings and traditions that disguise each religion, I discovered the soul to be the same in all of them. Therefore, it is hard for me to say I am just one, when my heart recognizes the truths in them all.

I belong rather to a more classical tradition of social analysis.

The round-up is an aggressive tradition. I'm trying to objectively be a steward of the tradition and what it means in its choreography.

The traditional models for success are just also disappearing.

Language pedants hew to an oral tradition of shibboleths that have no basis in logic or style, that have been defied by great writers for centuries, and that have been disavowed by every thoughtful usage manual.

It was the family tradition. I wanted to live up to the name-McNair.

Tradition is a fine thing. Nothing comes out of the blue, except perhaps thunderbolts and they are not really very useful things.

[Bob Dylan] builds his lyrics, of course, from personal experience, but it's also a literary work. He draws heavily on his knowledge of American lyric tradition as well as European modernism. But he should let the Nobel Prize Committee know if he is accepting it or not.

For me, as a writer who comes from quite a naturalistic tradition, British screenwriting is quite delicate, quite small, and rarified in a way.

The meditation traditions I started and have continued practicing have all emphasized inclusivity: anyone can do this who is interested.

It's pretty much the same; it's just that Phil was very weird with his system. This is more of the traditional system.