I come out of a strong oral tradition in the South.

Rae Chorze-Fwaz has preserved and passed on their secret meditation techniques in oral tradition from the time of Atlantis until he present day.

— Frederick Lenz

“Here is an oral tradition, legends passed from mouth to mouth, a communal myth created invariably at the base of the mango tree in…

— Ryszard Kapuściński

We have oral traditions in Mali, and songs are passed down and around this way. I think in the US you can play all…

— Vieux Farka Toure

Gershwin's melodic gift was phenomenal. His songs contain the essence of New York in the 1920s and have deservedly become classics of their kind,…

— George Gershwin

My background is deep and set in deep time, and in a narrow space, oral traditions going back a long, long time, which I…

— Alan Garner

I grew up in Sierra Leone, in a small village where as a boy my imagination was sparked by the oral tradition of storytelling.…

— Ishmael Beah

“The whole tradition of [oral] story telling is endangered by modern technology. Although telling stories is a very fundamental human attribute, to the extent…

— Sara Maitland

I have been given something really, really special and really unique, and it is not just in and of itself having learned from my…

— Anoushka Shankar

Although it is tempting to imagine an ancient era innocent of biochemical weaponry, in fact this Pandora's box of horrors was opened thousands of…

— Adrienne Mayor

The Irish, as a race, have the oral tradition in their blood. A direct question to them is an anathema, but in other cases,…

— P. L. Travers

The point is there is more information now then you can pass along comfortably in an oral tradition, say a strictly speaking culture. That…

— Jerry Garcia

I think of myself in the oral tradition-as a troubadour, a village tale-teller, the man in the shadows of the campfire. That's the way…

— Louis L'Amour

“The task of understanding a culture built on the oral tradition is impossible to students steeped in the written tradition. p.55”

— Harold A. Innis

Indians are marvelous storytellers. In some ways, that oral tradition is stronger than the written tradition.

— N. Scott Momaday

Though now we think of fairy tales as stories intended for very young children, this is a relatively modern idea. In the oral tradition,…

— Terri Windling