In virtually every Western society in the 1960s there was a moral revolution, an abandonment of its entire traditional ethic of self-restraint.
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.
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.
Apart from Scottish traditional music, I wasn't really influenced by any kind of music. I just basically followed my own instincts.
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.
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.
The saying"Tradition goes on" is anti dynamic and ruins the progress and development of every nation that adheres to it
Compared to industry in Europe or Japan, where industry was based on a craft tradition, we are sadly behind.
I think the most experimental way to a film is to tell the story the traditional way, because everyone is doing the other thing.
Our country has the oldest tradition of storytelling, and this was much before writing stories even became a norm.
The higher American patriotism, on the other hand, combines loyalty to historical tradition and precedent with the imaginative projection of an ideal national Promise.
We have a long tradition in this state of caring for our neighbors - it is truly an Iowa value.
A love for tradition has never weakened a nation, indeed it has strengthened nations in their hour of peril.
I'm happiest with people who've gotten furthest from traditional ideas of nationalism.
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.
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.
Create your own method. Don't depend slavishly on mine. Make up something that will work for you! But keep breaking traditions, I beg you.
Pixar has invented much of computer animation as it's known today, and I've been very lucky to be the first traditional animator to work with computer animation.
I wish it was possible to do the work and not have to talk about it, but it is traditional in the theater to go into the village square and bang the drum and say, 'Come see this show, come see this show.'
I feel the feminist movement has excluded black women. You cannot talk about being black and a woman within traditional feminist dialogue.
I am at war... with the principal personage of traditional philosophy, that abstract subject who masquerades as everyone and anyone, but is really a male subject in disguise.
