Quotes about Tradition
An authentic updating of sacred music can take place only in the lineage of the great tradition of the past, of Gregorian chant and of sacred polyphony.
— Pope Benedict XVI
An old Apache storyteller reminds us
— Joseph Campbell
New arts are long in the world before poets describe them; for they borrow everything from their predecessors, and commonly derive very little from nature or from life.
— Samuel Johnson
The soul and substance of what customarily ranks as patriotism is moral cowardice -- and always has been.
— Mark Twain
Let a man be stimulated by poetry, established by the rules of propriety, and perfected by music.
— Confucius
Poetry must be as new as foam, and as old as the rock.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Precedents once established are so much positive power.
— James Madison
Innovation! One cannot be forever innovating. I want to create classics.
— Coco Chanel
Tell about the South. What's it like there. What do they do there. Why do they live there. Why do they live at all.
— William Faulkner
Ritual will always mean throwing away something: destroying our corn or wine upon the altar of our gods.
— GK Chesterton
God expects us to measure the church not against tradition but against the standards & promises of His Word.
— AW Tozer
When we have broken our god of tradition, and ceased from our god of rhetoric, then may God fire the heart with His presence.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson