Traditionalist Quotes

#1. I'm really not this jazz traditionalist guy you've been making me out to be all of these years.

Christian McBride

#2. The fact that Western Muslims are free means that they can have enormous impact. But it would be wrong to claim that we are imposing our ways on the West. New ideas are now coming from the West. To be traditional is not so much a question of protecting ourselves as to be traditionalist in principle.

Tariq Ramadan

#3. A traditionalist's values are gleaned from all that is good in the past.

Fennel Hudson

#4. Like all the best radical positions, then, mine is a thoroughly traditionalist one.

Terry Eagleton

#5. I see myself as a traditionalist ... I like traditional things. I like things of substance and value that have been proven. Conceptually, as the songs started to come together, I followed that lead, which is the language I work in.

Jakob Dylan

#6. I don't think you'd call me a traditionalist. But you can say I have an old soul, because I grew up listening to Conway Twitty and Hank Williams.

Scotty McCreery

#7. I am a hundred-percent Indian traditionalist! I am not "playing anything" - that is for the media to be able to say what I am doing.

Trilok Gurtu

#8. I call myself a traditionalist, although I have fought against tradition all my life.

Philip Johnson

#9. I'm a bit of a traditionalist; the ballroom is all about tails and I never mess about with that. But for the Latin you can have a bit fun: tight trousers, gold shirt open to my waist, be a bit ridiculous.

Anton Du Beke

#10. In an age which has embraced every novelty, the true rebel is the traditionalist.

Kevin Clark

#11. Apollo without Dionysus may indeed be a well-informed, good citizen but he's a dull fellow. He may even be 'cultured,' in the sense one often gets from traditionalist writings in education ... But without Dionysus he will never make and remake a culture.

Jerome Bruner

#12. I'd say we are traditionalist. We are heavy on discipline and relatively strict and structured. But we also make sure our children feel not just physically safe but emotionally safe, like they can come to us with anything.

Mona Sutphen

#13. I am a traditionalist, I'm not a conventional person, but I am a traditionalist in the true form of the word, in that your heart is opening, you're absolutely there for everyone, the face of pain has no tradition, by the way, and in my tradition, a guru simply means the removal of darkness.

Maya Tiwari

#14. I went to work for Catholics United for the Faith, and I basically found myself in the midst of the traditionalist branch of the Catholic revival. There is an intellectual rigor that is very much valued there and that I was in awe of.

Regina Doman

#15. 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 to make.

Chely Wright

#16. I guess I am a bit of a traditionalist.

Yvonne Strahovski

#17. I'm a traditionalist with suits. It doesn't need extra pockets, and I don't want headphone jacks in my jacket. I appreciate designers who do different things, but for me, the most basic version of that item is what I want.

Waris Ahluwalia

#18. I'm a traditionalist, so for me, black coffee is cool.

Graham Elliot

#19. I'm a traditionalist. I have certain values I live by.

Danny Aiello

#20. the regime's utter cultural and intellectual mediocrity, and especially its obsession with ensuring a rigid outward conformity to its neo-traditionalist values in public life.

Helen Graham

#21. Dreher is correct in saying that traditionalist conservatives also have been conservationists ... I think most conservatives should agree that this is an area we need to think more about.

Paul Weyrich

#22. I'm definitely not a traditionalist, because a traditionalist would be going to church every Sunday.

Oprah Winfrey

#23. I just try to keep myself a traditionalist. I liked being an underground comic doing my thing. I want to maintain that. I just do.

Zach Galifianakis

#24. Many people think of me as a modernist, as a radical in music, you know, someone who's always sort of at the avant-garde of musics, but I'm also quite a traditionalist.

Gunther Schuller

#25. Being a traditionalist, I'm a rabid sucker for Christmas. In July, I'm already worried that there are only 146 shopping days left.

John Waters

#26. I am a traditionalist, and I'm an innovator. Most of what I do is to weigh change and legislate to the best of my ability on what should change and what should not. Do I have a respect for tradition? Of course I do. Do I have a blind belief in it? No.

Judith Martin

#27. Everybody knows in the business how I feel about country music. I'm an old traditionalist. Then they just call me an old man and stuck in my old ways, but with all the fans I've got out there, I can't be all that wrong. I do love traditional country music. I love the good stuff.

George Jones

#28. The government in Turkey, which represents the powerful, traditionalist mass, is very comfortable creating policies tailored only for their supporters.

Safak Pavey

#29. There's nothing wrong with not liking what you don't like. I mean, the Leon Bridges that we played is a little more straight traditionalist. I like the way this plays around with classic sounds, but ...

Stephen W. Thompson

#30. I'm sort of a traditionalist usually. I love old soul music and The Beatles; I realized I was sort of trying to make music sometimes that fit into an era that's gone.

Eric Hutchinson

#31. I'm afraid I was very much the traditionalist. I went down on one knee and dictated a proposal which my secretary faxed over straight away.

Stephen Fry

#32. Vintage fountain pens have provenance that makes a traditionalist go weak at the knuckles.

Fennel Hudson

#33. I'm a traditionalist.

Morrissey

#34. I guess I'm half traditionalist, half modern girl and I just never ... I love the digital world and I love electronica and after I shoot everything is digital, but I just ... I don't know.

Carol Friedman