Quotes of: American-tradition Keyword

I'm really getting to appreciate traditional jazz now - the New Orleans stuff - a lot more than I did before.

John Goodman

I went to a boarding school with a strong Maori tradition, where we were taught all about the haka.

Jonah Lomu

The idea of 'ferie,' or summer break, is a long tradition of which all Italians, including myself, participate. It's a time to relax, reflect and recharge.

Frida Giannini

I made records in the past that are as traditional as any other country records that have been made, but at the same time the records have a contemporary slant on it too.

Vince Gill

It's not the traditional promise ring. It's basically to always stay truthful. I think that's a really important part of a relationship, that you're always honest with each other.

Bella Thorne

With respect to the respective French and German traditions you are no doubt correct, although I am reluctant to see individual achievement reduced to archetypes.

Brian Ferneyhough

In virtually every Western society in the 1960s there was a moral revolution, an abandonment of its entire traditional ethic of self-restraint.

Jonathan Sacks

My feet always danced to Irish traditional music, but I was very glad to get out of the North of Ireland in the mid-Seventies when it was really closed and tight and relentlessly unforgiving.

Ciaran Hinds

I'm very much a traditionalist, but I think it's important to know about tradition so that you can evolve the music you are deciding to make.

Chely Wright

Apart from Scottish traditional music, I wasn't really influenced by any kind of music. I just basically followed my own instincts.

Evelyn Glennie

Country fans need to support country music by buying albums and concert tickets for traditional artists or the music will just fade away. And that would be really sad.

George Jones

In the days when regional music was very clearly defined and had a clear personality - Memphis, Detroit, Chicago, whatever - Philadelphia had a tradition that was very distinct and unique.

John Oates

The saying"Tradition goes on" is anti dynamic and ruins the progress and development of every nation that adheres to it

ABC

Compared to industry in Europe or Japan, where industry was based on a craft tradition, we are sadly behind.

Arthur Erickson

I think the most experimental way to a film is to tell the story the traditional way, because everyone is doing the other thing.

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

Our country has the oldest tradition of storytelling, and this was much before writing stories even became a norm.

Ashwin Sanghi

We have a long tradition in this state of caring for our neighbors - it is truly an Iowa value.

Thomas Vilsack

A love for tradition has never weakened a nation, indeed it has strengthened nations in their hour of peril.

Winston S. Churchill

I'm happiest with people who've gotten furthest from traditional ideas of nationalism.

William Gibson

There's the tradition in jazz of having the Battle of the Bands, and you do not want to get your head cut when you're playing.

Wynton Marsalis

There's a longstanding tradition that journalists don't cheer in the press box. They have opinions, like anyone else, but they are expected to keep those opinions out of their work.

Bill Dedman