Culture Quote by Alan Menken

For many people out there in the world, music is the only thing that gives them relief, so it’s awesome to be a part…

— Richard Patrick

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…

— Chely Wright

If I belong to a tradition, it is a tradition that makes the masterpiece tell the performer what to do, and not the performer…

— Alfred Brendel

If I belong to a tradition it is a tradition that makes the masterpiece tell the performer what he should do and not the…

— Alfred Brendel

The Western music tradition is mostly addressed to a public that has a critical mind, and judges the quality of the writing, of the…

— Gaspar Claus

But an innovation, to grow organically from within, has to be based on an intact tradition, so our idea is to bring together musicians…

— Yo-Yo Ma

Every time I've gone in to create music and felt free and felt like I was actually creating something, it's turned out something I'm…

— Walker Hayes

I don't know how well I work in traditions. I don't know if it's just the way I listened to music growing up and…

— Julia Holter

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

But I feel music has a very important role in ritual activity, and that being able to join in musical activity, along with dancing,…

— E. O. Wilson

Music should always be just a celebration.

— K-Maro

A lot of young musicians in Stockholm are about keeping tradition alive and moving it forward at the same time.

— Neneh Cherry