From birth to death, anyone can fish. I just think it's fantastic to see old people going fishing with young people and teaching them things. I'm very, very critical.
When you teach your son, you teach your son's son.
I transmit but do not create. I place my trust in the teachings of antiquity.
But say, my lord, it were not regist'red, Methinks the truth should live from age to age, As 'twere retailed to all posterity, Even to the general all-ending day.
If the legends fall silent, who will teach the children of our ways?
As an artist, I feel so fortunate to be able to learn from all these great musicians that came before me, when some people have nobody that came before them.
I don't want my son to have to collect a bunch of 'New York Times' articles to see what I was like.
One of the greatest gifts we can give to another generation is our experience, our wisdom.
I grew up in the same place as my mother, seeing the same trees my mother saw when she was at work; the flowers I picked were the flowers that my grandma planted. We have different styles; I wouldn't make the same clothes that my mum made, or my grandma, but we have the same taste.
I write to tell my grandchildren where they come from, and what their grandparents were up to, and I hope they will in their own way continue. I invite anyone else to listen in.
If the very old will remember, the very young will listen.
Our families don't always cross the finish line in the span of one generation. But each generation passes on to the next the fruits of their labor.
It's nice for me to be in touch with a younger generation.
Grandchildren are the dots that connect the lines from generation to generation.
Each new generation is reared by its predecessor; the latter must therefore improve in order to improve its successor. The movement is circular.
There are so many things about which some old man ought to tell one while one is little; for when one is grown one would know them as a matter of course.
My dad was born in 1905, and the men from that period were real men. He prepared me for the world.
Following in my father's footsteps is not a big deal to me.
It will be exciting to have my child share my career and to remember what I was like when I was young.
I feel like we can learn from each other by us, being the young generation, giving knowledge to the older guys.
My songs would be nothing had it not been for my father. I follow his footsteps.
I remember a specific moment, watching my grandmother hang the clothes on the line, and her saying to me, 'you are going to have to learn to do this,' and me being in that space of awareness and knowing that my life would not be the same as my grandmother's life.
I'm attempting to put myself in a bottle that will one day wash up on the beach for my children.
To the children of yesterday, who have grown up and become parents, and to the children of today, who perhaps shout 'Tottigol,' I'd like to think that, for you, my career has become a fairytale for you to pass on.
God put us here to prepare this place for the next generation. That's our job. Raising children and helping the community, that's preparing for the next generation.
