Quotes on Tradition

If I belong to a tradition, it is a tradition that makes the masterpiece tell the performer what to do, and not the performer telling the piece what it should be like, or the composer what he ought to have composed.

Author: Alfred Brendel

I had hoped that the board would accept Johnny Hon's offer of a loan to buy the stadium back for the club, as I think this would be best way of continuing the long tradition of Cambridge United in Cambridge - and it was a generous offer.

Author: Anne Campbell

I keep up the tradition, the zydeco.

Author: Boozoo Chavis

Preserving tradition has become a nice hobby, like stamp collecting.

Author: Mason Cooley

That's why we're doing this, to defend our traditions a little. I don't have anything against it (Halloween), but it's not our tradition.

Author: Fernando Flores

I think it's a Blondie tradition that all of our albums sort of have a wide spread of styles.

Author: Debbie Harry

I like the catholicity in time: our tradition is one of 2,000 years.

Author: Hans Kung

Tradition is a guide and not a jailer.

Author: W. Maugham

I was brought up in the great tradition of the late nineteenth century: that a writer never complains, never explains and never disdains.

Author: James Michener

A poet clings to his own tradition and avoids internationalism.

Author: Salvatore Quasimodo

There was an honorable tradition of using anonymous sources that was ruined by Jayson Blair.

Author: Ted Rall

The safest general characterization of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to Plato.

Author: Alfred Whitehead

True wisdom is knowing when to cherish tradition and when to embrace change, for in the dance between the two lies the path to growth.

Author: Sarah Johnson

Illicit creativity thrives beyond the confines of tradition.

Author: Sophia Lee

Every quilt tells a story, stitch by stitch, connecting past and present in a colorful tapestry of memories.

Author: Emily Taylor

Tradition is not the worship of ashes, but the preservation of fire.

Author: Gustav Mahler

Just because something is traditional is no reason to do it, of course.

Author: Winston Churchill

Traditions are the seeds of cultural vitality, nurture them wisely to watch societies flourish.

Author: Sofia Patel

The only limit to your creativity is your willingness to break free from tradition

Author: Samantha Johnson

Quotes on Tradition

You must be in tune with the times and prepared to break with tradition.

Tradition demands that we not speak poorly of the dead.

As soon as tradition has come to be recognized as tradition, it is dead.

If I belong to a tradition, it is a tradition that makes the masterpiece tell the performer what to do, and not the performer telling the piece what it should be like, or the composer what he ought to have composed.

I had hoped that the board would accept Johnny Hon's offer of a loan to buy the stadium back for the club, as I think this would be best way of continuing the long tradition of Cambridge United in Cambridge - and it was a generous offer.

I keep up the tradition, the zydeco.

Preserving tradition has become a nice hobby, like stamp collecting.

That's why we're doing this, to defend our traditions a little. I don't have anything against it (Halloween), but it's not our tradition.

I think it's a Blondie tradition that all of our albums sort of have a wide spread of styles.

I like the catholicity in time: our tradition is one of 2,000 years.

Tradition is a guide and not a jailer.

I was brought up in the great tradition of the late nineteenth century: that a writer never complains, never explains and never disdains.

A poet clings to his own tradition and avoids internationalism.

There was an honorable tradition of using anonymous sources that was ruined by Jayson Blair.

The safest general characterization of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to Plato.

True wisdom is knowing when to cherish tradition and when to embrace change, for in the dance between the two lies the path to growth.

Illicit creativity thrives beyond the confines of tradition.

Every quilt tells a story, stitch by stitch, connecting past and present in a colorful tapestry of memories.

Tradition is not the worship of ashes, but the preservation of fire.

Just because something is traditional is no reason to do it, of course.

Traditions are the seeds of cultural vitality, nurture them wisely to watch societies flourish.

The only limit to your creativity is your willingness to break free from tradition