Quotes about Tradition
Rap has been a path between cultures in the best tradition of popular music.
— Jay-Z
Classic music will always come across better on the ice because skating has such a rich history, rooted in tradition.
— Gracie Gold
Our mothers and grandmothers ... moving to music not yet written.
— Alice Walker
The curious beauty about African music is that it uplifts even as it tells a sad story.
— Nelson Mandela
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.
— Pope Benedict XVI
An old Apache storyteller reminds us
— Joseph Campbell
New arts are long in the world before poets describe them; for they borrow everything from their predecessors, and commonly derive very little from nature or from life.
— Samuel Johnson
The soul and substance of what customarily ranks as patriotism is moral cowardice -- and always has been.
— Mark Twain
Let a man be stimulated by poetry, established by the rules of propriety, and perfected by music.
— Confucius
Poetry must be as new as foam, and as old as the rock.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Precedents once established are so much positive power.
— James Madison
Innovation! One cannot be forever innovating. I want to create classics.
— Coco Chanel