Pat Metheny Quotes

I'm the proof - you can't throw away tradition.

A deep meaning resides in old customs.

Almost always tradition is nothing but a record and a machine-made imitation of the habits that our ancestors created.

It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition.

Tradition is a guide and not a jailer.

I grew up in a wonderful blend of a lot of old culture.

I believe in traditions; I believe in the idea of things being passed between generations and the slow transmission of cultural values through tradition.

Oh yes. And a great many of them still do.

Traditions insist upon themselves. Look around, and you will see them trying to exist everywhere, in everyone's life.

I find great joy in tradition, and, in fact, I seek it.

It takes a lifetime to build tradition.

If we do not honor our past, we lose our future. If we destroy our roots, we cannot grow.

My heritage has been my grounding, and it has brought me peace.

We've got to know our history. We have to be able to bring our children to a place that they can be proud of.

We, of our time, have played our part in the perseverance, and we have pledged ourselves to the dead generations who have preserved intact for us this glorious heritage, that we, too, will strive to be faithful to the end, and pass on this tradition unblemished.

What we call wisdom is the result of all the wisdom of past ages. Our best institutions are like young trees growing upon the roots of the old trunks that have crumbled away.

Tradition means taking account of a wonderful history but remembering that everybody today looks to the future.

Let us make future generations remember us as proud ancestors just as, today, we remember our forefathers.

We are all part of a tradition, at least we depend on the past.

I think that at heart I am an old-fashioned Chinese, really I am.

Tradition is the illusion of permanance.

First of all, the most important, that is to learn everything good that has survived from other times, and carefully to watch the bad - and throw it out.

At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard the past.

Tradition does not mean that the living are dead, it means that the dead are living.

Tradition is a very powerful force.