Traditional Quotes
In many ways, I think it's easier in some ways, or it's more entertaining or more guaranteed to be entertaining than traditional improvising. Again, because you're not just you in your body.
I've never really been a traditional country kind of guy. I wanted my music to sound more like the end of the '90s and to have the kind of great music, pop or whatever, that radio will embrace.
As far as the work I did with Timbaland, it was his sound and I just kinda floated in his direction. I just rapped over his traditional beats.
Even though I do a more traditional type of being funny on television, I still know a lot of comedians and stand-ups and improv actors.
Jane leaned back against the counter and stared at the ceiling. At the traditional location of God, no matter what the planet.
Wherever any precept of traditional morality is simply challenged to produce its credentials, as though the burden of proof lay on it, we have taken the wrong position.
In the traditional Ikebana things always have to be asymmetrical, because in this they look more natural and balanced.
If you want to make something that's aggressive and challenging and peculiar and strange and trying to step outside of a traditional approach, some people aren't going to like it.
Sculptors, poets, painters, musicians-they're the traditional purveyors of Beauty. But it can as easily be created by a gardener, a farmer, a plumber, a careworker.
The thing that attracts people to "The Sopranos" is the family element. It shows that America still has a longing for that traditional upbringing.
People love the traditional pantomimes and I don't think we need to disregard that tradition.
I'm sporty, active, bubbly, I like to make people laugh... I'm the jokester. But I'm also very traditional.
My Dublin wasn't the Dublin of sing-songs, traditional music, sense of history and place and community.
The music that I play and that I like is traditional music, maybe it's because of my age.
Traditional history appears to be the defacto recognition of every evil deed that failed to be stopped or eliminated.
I have led the way for moving women from traditional roles to strategic positions and inspired girls and women throughout Africa to seek leadership positions.
I have to wonder at what point the people fighting to protect marriage will realize that traditional couples haven't exactly been doing too good a job of it so far.
I grew up in a big Irish family, where everyone played the traditional sports, and I remember my grandfather saying to me, 'Why are you playing that communist game? You won't get anywhere with it.'
The closest thing we have to the traditional ideology of the leisure class is a group of artists and intellectuals who regard their work as play and their play as work.
Traditional Islam is a mixture of all obedience to Allah, and if that requires militancy, so be it.
I came from this very traditional background and I benefited hugely from feminism. I felt privileged going to university and doing a PhD. Most people of my background don't get to do that.
Since the beginning, the people of the college and I have agreed that the music of MerleFest is 'traditional plus.'
I do think there's gonna always be a group of country people that are always going to love the old traditional sound.
No other group (traditional Christians) is so consistently maligned on prime-time television. These defamatory portrayals betray a deep-seated hostility.
A period film, where you, for example, where you have a traditional wardrobes, you are bound to act a certain way. But in a modern film, a lot of body gesture.
Of course, there is no reconciliation between the theory of evolution by natural selection and the traditional religious view of the origin of the human mind.
So we are not doing the traditional album, tour, album, tour, album, tour anymore. We're going to tour when we want to, regardless of whether we've got a record out.
Now, that can be a traditional form or it can be something you're inventing. It can be the development of a metaphor, the working through of a metaphor.
We have these traditional political parties that are less and less responsive to the needs of ordinary people, so people are in search of their own values.
When a person responds emotionally to intellectual things, or emotionally only to traditional emotional things - I find that an interesting break between myself and some other writers and fans.
Nowadays we can sidestep traditional media with social media and technology that allows us to become citizen journalists, to fight against injustice by showing what's shamefully going on.
It's because of this fundamental shift towards user-generated information that people will listen more to other people than to traditional resources.
The Internet challenges traditional ways of distributing and processing information and so encourages new standards and behavior.
What has impressed me the most about the Italians whose tables we've sat at is that they are traditional cooks but also outrageously innovative. These people are wild improvisers.
If you're very, very conservative and you like that sort of practice, go find a very conservative Zen master and just do traditional Japanese practice, which is not that traditional actually.
The Zen Master was constantly attempting to break up concepts that people had about what it was like to be a spiritual teacher. We have a traditional image. Each Zen master was a complete character.
Why are you so sure parallel lines exist? Believe nothing, merely because you have been told it, or because it is traditional, or because you have imagined it.
If some of the greats had followed the traditional ways we would be missing so much fine art.
The only kind of reform usually possible is reform from within; a more intimate study and more intelligent use of the traditional forms.
I cannot write too much upon how necessary it is to be completely conservative that is particularly traditional in order to be free.
I love that there's this tradition of being able to discuss the heaviest topics and the gnarliest stuff that goes down in people's lives in traditional Southern American music.
