Festivals Quotes

It's one of the greatest festivals in the world. New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Fest is the best all-around... It's an honor to be closing it.

- Aaron Neville

Usually when I take my films to festivals, I feel incredibly anxious about them. I wonder how it will be received, how the audience will react. I feel deeply responsible for them.

- Abbas Kiarostami

I worked on the line, I've been an executive chef, I've worked for the Mets, I've worked for various steakhouses, vegetarian restaurants, a lot of Middle Eastern stuff. I've worked my fair share of a lot of different things. I've worked at festivals and street fairs, you know? I've been through it all.

- Action Bronson

I like that conventions want me to appear and festivals want me to come speak because they like the climate I attract. It's a good feeling.

- Adam Green

I will not do festivals. The thought of an audience that big frightens the life out of me.

- Adele

In the non-Greek stories, Persia, Egypt, even China, Central Asia, in oral traditions and written literature, anyone who fights Amazons admires their courage and beauty, and they want to be allies of the Amazon; they don't wanna kill them.

- Adrienne Mayor

The Olympic Games are highly commercialised. They purport to follow the traditions of an ancient athletics competition, but today it is the commercial aspect that is most apparent. I have seen how, through sport, cities and corporations compete against each other for financial gain.

- Ai Weiwei

My parents used to do these little film festivals in our house where we'd watch all the Marx Brothers movies, or Chaplin movies, and a lot of westerns.

- Alden Ehrenreich

My parents weren't involved in show business, but my parents would show me. We'd watch old films in the house. Little film festivals of Westerns and stuff like that when I was a kid. I knew I wanted to be those guys in those movies before I knew what being an actor was.

- Alden Ehrenreich

That incredible bubble and high expectations built at festivals can work against a film.

- Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

My school is very good and quite understanding and know I have to take time off for interviews or writers' festivals.

- Alexandra Adornetto

A child is beset with long traditions. And his infancy is so old, so old, that the mere adding of years in the life to follow will not seem to throw it further back - it is already so far.

- Alice Meynell

In starting to learn about film festivals and what were good ones - 'cause there are five billion of them - it was just a really good East Coast festival. And I thought this little movie was an East Coast film.

- Andrew McCarthy

To get noticed, I had to take my films in a space which was much more democratic in terms of cinema - the international film festivals.

- Anurag Kashyap

Festivals cause diseases, since they lighten cares but increase gluttony.

- Apollonius of Tyana

Doing that, then doing a lot of theater, which I love. Doing guest stars, did two independent films that are going around to all these festivals. Both of them are going to be at the Lake Tahoe Film Festival.

- Austin Peck

Obviously there is stuff that I wouldn't play in a club that I play at festivals, and vice-versa, but my sets are still dominated largely by my own music. I think that's what makes me stand out a bit. My music is also festival- and club-friendly, so it generally works out well.

- Avicii

Every culture has something to be ashamed of, but every culture also has the right to change, to challenge negative traditions, and create to new ones.

- Azar Nafisi

Like the United Nations, there is something inspirational about New York as a great melting pot of different cultures and traditions. And if this is the city that never sleeps, the United Nations works tirelessly, around the clock around the world.

- Ban Ki-moon

We are a party of innovation. We do not reject our traditions, but we are willing to adapt to changing circumstances, when change we must. We are willing to suffer the discomfort of change in order to achieve a better future.

- Barbara Jordan

I've lost count of the plane tickets I've had in my pocket for people's weddings and other celebrations which I've had to tear up because I was making a film. How many things like that can you miss and still be in people's lives?

- Beeban Kidron

Our loyalty is not to our grandparents, the traditions, our volleyball team, our friends; as believers, our loyalty is to Scripture.

- Benjamin Watson

I discovered after going to music festivals that I am a rock fan. I love the guitars, the phrasing, and the abandon of rock fans.

- Beyonce Knowles

For many years, our Messianic Jewish brothers and sisters have paid a great price. Other Jews have rejected them, and the Christian church would require they walk away from their traditions to fit into the Gentile culture. We must face these past wrongs.

- Bill McCartney

Bluegrass has brought more people together and made more friends than any music in the world. You meet people at festivals and renew acquaintances year after year.

- Bill Monroe

Oklahomans value our children and our seniors. Oklahomans value traditions of faith. Oklahomans value our heroes, our veterans. Oklahomans value innovation and the creative arts.

- Brad Henry

I can go to festivals and open spaces, but if I'm in a crammed room with a bunch of people - oh my God.

- Brendon Urie

It's just really cool to go to countries and play festivals for people who don't really know your band or don't ever get to see it. It's really nice.

- Brendon Urie

Saddam's ouster will not necessarily lead to the same result, since Iraq lacks democratic traditions. Democracy doesn't just consist of holding elections.

- Brent Scowcroft

I grew up as a fifth-generation Jew in the American South, at the confluence of two great storytelling traditions. After graduating from Yale in the 1980s, I moved to Japan. For young adventure seekers like myself, the white-hot Japanese miracle held a similar appeal as Russia in 1920s or Paris in the 1950s.

- Bruce Feiler

It's true, Christmas can feel like a lot of work, particularly for mothers. But when you look back on all the Christmases in your life, you'll find you've created family traditions and lasting memories. Those memories, good and bad, are really what help to keep a family together over the long haul.

- Caroline Kennedy

Wimbledon is very special with the traditions and everything.

- Caroline Wozniacki

All cultures are different. Some commit genocide. Some are uniquely peaceful. Some frequent bathhouses in groups. Some don't show each other the soles of their shoes or like pictures taken of them. Some have enormous hunting festivals or annual stretches when nobody speaks. Some don't use electricity.

- Casey Affleck

I love U.K. festivals because people go to watch as many bands as possible. They aren't just there to see their favourites; they'll be there all day long.

- Chris Jericho

I think the institutions, principles, norms, and traditions that make the United States of America genuinely exceptional are at serious risk. It has been hard to think about anything else.

- Chris Sacca

They decided as part of my 75th birthday celebrations that I would be entitled to fly first class. I'll be honest, I'm not good at flying anymore. To my credit, I can stretch out on two coach seats.

- Chuck Feeney

I've been to several international film festivals, including those in Locarno, Switzerland; Dubai; Russia; Berlin; Cannes; Bangkok; and Hong Kong.

- Coco Martin

Create your own method. Don't depend slavishly on mine. Make up something that will work for you! But keep breaking traditions, I beg you.

- Constantin Stanislavski

I will eat disgusting things, but only those with long established culinary traditions.

- Dana Goodyear

Capitalism attacks and destroys all the finer sentiments of the human heart; it ruthlessly sweeps away old traditions and ideas opposed to its progress, and it exploits and corrupts those things once held sacred.

- Daniel De Leon

I go to music festivals, and people want to talk to me about racism. I'm like, 'Bro, I'm trying to have fun!'

- Daniel Kaluuya

Festivals promote diversity, they bring neighbors into dialogue, they increase creativity, they offer opportunities for civic pride, they improve our general psychological well-being. In short, they make cities better places to live.

- David Binder

Christianity and Judaism are united above all in their common affirmation and implementation of the moral teaching of the Hebrew Bible, or 'Old Testament,' and the traditions of interpretation of that teaching.

- David Novak

Religious traditions are in a constant state of development and renewed self-understanding.

- David Novak

We pride ourselves on our democratic traditions, but in Canada, women couldn't vote until 1918, Asians until 1948, and First Nations people living on reserves until 1960.

- David Suzuki

All of our great traditions, religious, contemplative and artistic, say that you must a learn how to be alone - and have a relationship with silence. It is difficult, but it can start with just the tiniest quiet moment.

- David Whyte

All my friends are usually at festivals... I just have so much adrenaline running, I literally could run a marathon after my shows.

- Daya

In my definition of consciousness, consciousness is the same thing as life. What wisdom traditions also call spirit.

- Deepak Chopra

I think music is so diverse today, and bands are so diverse. If you were a rock band in the Eighties, you kind of had to stick to one thing. Now, in this age of Coachella and European festivals and stuff, it's kind of anything goes, so that allowed us to try different things.

- Dexter Holland

You see Mexican cinema in festivals throughout the world, and you see Mexican directors getting recognized at Cannes, at the Oscars, in Berlin, but the question is, What is the end result of that in terms of the market? That's where it's lacking.

- Diego Luna

I have kids, so I can understand the image that footballers have. They are fans of some players; I see in their eyes. They admire and try to imitate their gestures, their words, their celebrations. They love Ronaldo and Messi. Since Euro 2016, though, they have no right to pronounce the name of Ronaldo!

- Dimitri Payet

If I make a song, and it's my song, like 'Lean On,' we're going to make money off the synchs, the Spotify, and we get to headline festivals on it. That's the model I want to explore.

- Diplo

If you get to bring a little movie on the festival circuit, it's a nice experience because you get to see it with an audience. People who go to festivals to watch films are usually a little more eager to enjoy them. It's exciting because it's like you're going to the film's opening night at every festival.

- Dito Montiel

Still, as much as I wish Ballistic Kiss could be a better film, the recognition it gained from critics and at festivals speaks for itself.

- Donnie Yen

I'm short on celebrations and long on getting to work.

- Douglas Tompkins

The old Court you and I served so long will not be worthy of its traditions if Nixon can twist, turn and fashion If Nixon gets away with that, then Nixon makes the law as he goes along - not the Congress nor the courts.

- Earl Warren

That's the reality of my life - I do normal things and then get to go to film festivals and wear borrowed clothes and turn up at premieres and talk about things I am passionate about. But then you click back to normality and your family and friends.

- Eddie Redmayne

Just a decade after 'Living in Bondage,' Nollywood films, made in some 300 languages, were being watched in both urban and rural areas, distributed on both the streets and online, and finding their way into international festivals.

- Elizabeth Flock

Traditions are the guideposts driven deep in our subconscious minds. The most powerful ones are those we can't even describe, aren't even aware of.

- Ellen Goodman

Christmas is far and away my favorite holiday. I love everything about it, from the event that inspired it, hoping for a white one, to wrapping presents. But mostly I love having family and friends gathered, and sharing traditions.

- Ellen Hopkins

I want to be safe in the knowledge that I can tour and play festivals for a long time. The main thing is that I want a good reputation as a live performer. If I have that, I'd be so happy.

- Ellie Goulding

I know that at literary festivals I'm speaking mostly to middle-class women, who frequently vote in a way that is contrary to how I'd like them to vote.

- Elliot Perlman

There are storytelling traditions that come from Africa that are unique from anywhere else.

- Elvis Mitchell

Ever since I've left, I've been doing nothing but this film and traveling, promoting and doing festivals. So the good thing is that I'm not sitting around pining over whether I made the right choice in leaving. I'm moving and grooving.

- Eriq La Salle

The more each nation contributes to world society from the wealth of its own aptitudes, its own race, and its own traditions, the greater the future development and happiness of mankind will be.

- Ernesto Teodoro Moneta

Build traditions of family vacations and trips and outings. These memories will never be forgotten by your children.

- Ezra Taft Benson

Our laboratory is a place that celebrates diversity and is totally open to all differences, not just sex but also age, ethnicity, religion and other traditions.

- Fabiola Gianotti

That's why we're doing this, to defend our traditions a little. I don't have anything against it (Halloween), but it's not our tradition.

- Fernando Flores

Remarkable is the greater openness of the Catholic Church towards people of other religious traditions and persuasions. The development has not been without problems, since some people have resisted it and others have pushed openness beyond the desirable point.

- Francis Arinze

Our moral traditions developed concurrently with our reason, not as its product.

- Friedrich August von Hayek

I love the crowds at festivals because they're so chilled out.

- Gabrielle Aplin

I talk about religion because it's one of the ways human beings find power and belonging. Religion is more than just that - I think faith traditions give us ways to talk about experiences of the numinous, too - but power and belonging are a big part of it.

- Gene Luen Yang

I love festivals, period.

- Geoff Dyer

The holiday season can be an especially trying time for our service men, women, and families. Military service and deployment create empty seats at holiday tables, religious services, and celebrations.

- Geoff Stults

Certain Stanley Cup traditions remain intact, including the handshake line between players who had been belting one another for a couple of weeks.

- George Vecsey

For members of a traditional society where many traditions have been discredited, an interest in modernity can result in a restless sophistication. Mehmet Ertegun seems not to have been a restless man.

- George W. S. Trow

The Indians have such strong traditions and aesthetics, and the people are beautiful, as are their goods.

- Georgina Chapman

My unrealized ambition is to tend my vines, produce wine, and work like an artisan. I dream of rediscovering the old traditions and customs of wine growing, not necessarily to deny the technology which we have today, but to harness it and work in harmony with nature.

- Gerard Depardieu

To me, that aspect of life that most touches the everyday and celebrations is food.

- Gil Marks

And currently, there are four to five new works in the pipeline for upcoming celebrations such as the Sydney 2000 Olympics, Australian Federation, my 50th Birthday, and Sydney Dance Company's 25th Anniversary.

- Graeme Murphy

'The Guardian,' with its deep journalistic traditions, is careful about context and explanation. It sees itself as a gatekeeper, and it worries about consequences.

- Graydon Carter

One of our great thematic traditions in Bad Religion has been to question human nature.

- Greg Graffin

The reality is that we have all these awards and all these festivals that give out awards, so you sort of go, 'okay, well, people liked the film, and I think it's a good film, and it's up for an award - well, I guess it should win the award then.'

- Guy Pearce

At the same time we are aware that our various religions and ethical traditions often offer very different bases for what is helpful and what is unhelpful for men and women, what is right and what is wrong, what is good and what is evil.

- Hans Kung

If we go back in the history of different nations, violence and the use of force are part of their heritage. These are the traditions of mankind.

- Harri Holkeri

One of the most prevalent and undermentioned genres of music is what is known as noise. You can find it all over the world happening in basements, small venues and even some festivals. Often blown off or belittled by critics, the form for the most part goes unheard and unnoticed.

- Henry Rollins

One of my first festivals was Oxygen 2006. It had this amazing lineup with the Arctic Monkeys on their first or second album, the Strokes, Kings of Leon, the Magic Numbers and then the Who and James Brown. I waited in the pit for a good eight hours to see James Brown.

- Hozier

To tell you the truth, man, we spend most of the time travelling in hotels, in festivals, in concert halls, clubs, airports. The most unenjoyable part is all the security at airports.

- Hugh Masekela

Before 'Dancing with the Stars,' I'd directed a short called 'Man vs. Monday' that I sent out to all the festivals just to show I can direct and produce. It was also a template to launch a movie or a TV series.

- Ian Ziering

I love festivals in that people seem to let their hair down more. I love that people run from stage to stage. I love going as a performer because you get to see band that you wouldn't necessarily go see.

- Imelda May

The reason New Orleans is still around is because of the celebrations it has inspired since its inception as a city. I'm always excited about the possibility of what might happen. That's what drives us, and I think that's the spirit of New Orleans and the spirit of jazz.

- Irvin Mayfield

The Tibetans are dirty. They wash once a year and, except for festivals, seldom change their clothes till they begin to drop off. They are healthy and hardy; even the women can carry weights of sixty pounds over the passes. They attain extreme old age; their voices are harsh and loud, and their laughter is noisy and hearty.

- Isabella Bird

I'm a big believer in creating family traditions. Every Tuesday morning, I make a proper eggs breakfast, and we all sit down and eat.

- Ivanka Trump

Festivals are the best because you can't control anything, and for a control freak like me, that's a wonderful experience.

- Jack Garratt

Golf is game of respect and sportsmanship; we have to respect its traditions and its rules.

- Jack Nicklaus

Abandoning traditions of responsibility and civility won the GOP control of both houses of Congress in 1994. Rejecting any compromise brought Republicans the perks and power of majority control for the first time in 40 years. Thus did the politics of total resistance become their path of least resistance.

- Jacob Weisberg

By virtue of my traditions, and my community, I worked hard to ensure that I was accepted as part of the traditional family of America.

- James H. Douglas, Jr.

And we had our own laws. I mean, I wrote them. And we had our own customs, and traditions, and proprieties.

- James Stockdale

The economic piece is still missing, since it's so hard to attract industry to reservations, but spiritually and educationally, they're doing just fine. Each tribe has a community college now, and they teach the language, they teach the traditions.

- James Welch

Celebrations are great fun: bunting and this and that and the other.

- James William Middleton

At festivals, you can go a lot bigger than a club and have massive euphoric moments because there are so many people there all feeling the same thing.

- Jamie xx

Having cakes as a business certainly changes things for me - I don't now sit at home doing a cake for the fun of it anymore. But it's an extremely happy and pleasureable business to run because people are generally buying cakes for celebrations.

- Jane Asher

Unlike with any other art form, filmmakers have this unique web of festivals. There are hundreds. It is a democratic system in which you submit films, and if they are good enough, they play. The only barrier to entry is the submission fee.

- Jason Reitman

Before YouTube, I used to show videos at film festivals, and that was good and constructive. Watching things with an audience is a great way to gauge - it's pretty clear what's working in comedy when there's a joke and people laugh or don't laugh.

- Jason Woliner

Now, there are so many movies, so many festivals, and so many awards going on, each judged with each other, like your work is worse than others and that's not fair. How can you tell what's best and what's worst from these awards? We're talking about art.

- Javier Bardem

I see most of my movies at festivals.

- Jean Reno

In deference to American traditions, my family put our oven to rare use at Thanksgiving during my childhood, with odd roast-turkey experiments involving sticky-rice stuffing or newfangled basting techniques that we read about in magazines.

- Jennifer Lee

When you're talking about your own music every day, listening to bands, going to festivals, you can kind of lose sight of your initial connection with music. Instrumental music - especially jazz - helps me refocus.

- Jenny Lewis

I'm one of those pianists who tends to ignore every existing recording and lots of traditions about playing pieces when I start.

- Jeremy Denk

With faith and courage, generations of Armenians have overcome great suffering and proudly preserved their culture, traditions, and religion and have told the story of the genocide to an often indifferent world.

- Jerry Costello

I want our government to encourage and protect freedom as well as our traditions of faith and family.

- Jesse Helms

My mother loved entertaining, and I've followed suit, so we have big celebrations for New Year, Passover, Thanksgiving and birthdays.

- Joan Rivers

As Brits, we love a do, don't we? I adore our national celebrations. If I see a gold coach, you almost need to put me in a straitjacket, I get so excited.

- Joanna Lumley

I consider myself spiritual and I'm married to a man who is both an atheist and a humanist, and my kids have been raised with the traditions of different religions, but they do not go to church or temple. My feeling is that everyone should be able to believe what they want or need to believe.

- Jodi Picoult

It feels so good to be able to be part of an action flick like 'The Raid' and to read the rave reviews in a number of film festivals.

- Joe Taslim

Far from being the product of a democratic revolution and of an opposition to English institutions, the constitution of the United States was the result of a powerful reaction against democracy, and in favor of the traditions of the mother country.

- John Acton

Everyone - whether it's the Jews, the Greeks, the Catholics - everybody is entitled to religious beliefs and entitled to their traditions.

- John Catsimatidis

Australia will always be closer to the U.S. than she is to China because our values and political traditions are much closer.

- John Howard

Tapas is one of the world's most civilised drinking and eating traditions.

- John Lanchester

Customs, traditions, laws should be flexible, within good reason, if that is what it takes to make our democracy work.

- John Lewis

In order to the existence of such a ministry in the Church, there is requisite an authority received from God, and consequently power and knowledge imparted from God for the exercise of such ministry; and where a man possesses these, although the bishop has not laid hands upon him according to his traditions, God has Himself appointed him.

- John Wycliffe

Festivals are great because you get to just walk around the corner and see a new band that you've heard but not had the chance to check out.

- Johnny Marr

People are going to wake up to this great reservoir of music we've created in America - cakewalks, one-steps, boogie-woogie, country and western. I had a bit to do with one of those traditions.

- Johnny Otis

The more we can do to support and promulgate the intellectual traditions of the Abrahamic faiths - of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam - the better armed we will be to fight fundamentalism.

- Jon Meacham

I always try to design fashion that is interesting and innovative, and I like to break traditions and challenge people's expectations.

- Jonathan Anderson

The emphasis and value on ideas and original thinking is an innate part of British culture, and in many ways, that describes the traditions of design.

- Jonathan Ive

The really cool thing about festivals is that you're getting to play in front of a whole lot of people who have never heard of us before. That's exciting. At the same time, it's a little bit of a challenge to capture the attention of people who have already seen a lot of bands.

- Josh Dun

Both Jewish and Roman sources and traditions admit an empty tomb.

- Josh McDowell

In Puerto Rico, we have a lot of traditions. We eat a very typical thing that's called 'pasteles' - it's almost like a tamale made of bananas, and we make it all together. Like, all the women of the family unite, and it's a very big deal, a very big thing.

- Joyce Giraud

Traditions are a common part of our lives. They can be good, and not all traditions are wrong, but sometimes they can take the joy out of life.

- Joyce Meyer

What we need to understand is that when traditions become laws, rules, obligations and expectations others put on us that we don't want to fulfill, then they lose real meaning and steal the joy from our lives. And if we're too religious, we won't be able to be led by the Holy Spirit and enjoy an intimate relationship with Him.

- Joyce Meyer

I played the guitar. When I was 14, I composed songs - Paul McCartney-style things. I had a rock band - we'd compete in festivals.

- Juan Diego Florez

I have great respect for Catholic traditions; my family is Catholic, and it's part of my life.

- Juanes

We live a life that is often spent in crowds - parties, festivals and first nights - so it's nice to avoid them.

- Julian Fellowes

There's death and there's loss, but there's also celebrations, right?

- Justin Hartley

Since I was 20, I wanted to make a short film and send it to international short film festivals. It never happened. I became too big a star to indulge in those things.

- Kamal Haasan

Alas, all traditions lose their primal purity and we all fail our founders.

- Karen Armstrong

I want to play more festivals.

- Kat Edmonson

I like traditions, and the national anthem is important.

- Kate Mara

At comedy festivals, we always get grouped with other musical comedians, so you can get to know them and see what everyone is doing. it's really fun and awesome that we're the only girls, because we can tackle issues that guys can't sing about.

- Kate Micucci

Your traditions change from when you are child to when you become an adult.

- Katharine McPhee

As you know, the South is known for its hospitality, traditions, football, pageants, and food. Football is almost like a religion here. People say their priorities are faith, family, and then football. People eat, breathe, and sleep it in the South. It's a huge deal.

- Katherine Webb

I think that food ties us to our community and our traditions, and it's the thing that makes us feel good and connected.

- Kathy Freston

The whole aspect of cinema and film festivals should be a moment to come together and celebrate art and humanity. It would be a shame if there was such a divide.

- Keanu Reeves

There are so many fun charity festivals in the Hamptons. We enjoy so many fun events for kids such as Kidsfest. We also go to Super Saturday. We like to chill out and go out by the pool. We do things that are fun for kids and good for charity.

- Kelly Rutherford

When we finally got to play that and we had a great show there, well I can tell it was pretty awesome. Y'know, we probably did bigger festivals since then; we probably headlined bigger festivals since then, but I will always remember that.

- Kerry King

I'm a Democrat because I represent the true traditions of the Democratic Party.

- Kesha Rogers

A catechism is simply a tool for teaching the fundamentals of the faith. Unlike a creed or confession, a catechism uses questions and answers. Many Protestant confessional traditions, like Lutherans, Presbyterians, and Reformed, have used catechisms for centuries. Initially, most catechisms were intended for children.

- Kevin DeYoung

I've played festivals in Australia. If it's a dance music festival or mainstream festival, there's maybe, like, 10 percent who pay attention to the music.

- Kevin Parker

Too often, stories about Afghanistan center around the various wars, the opium trade, the war on terrorism. Precious little is said about the Afghan people themselves - their culture, their traditions, how they lived in their country and how they manage abroad as exiles.

- Khaled Hosseini

I really do try and play as many festivals as possible.

- Kygo

I've made so many changes to my records because of the way the audience has reacted at the various festivals I've played - I've taken tracks back into the studio, stripped them bare, and built them back up again to create something entirely different.

- Labrinth

I love being in public places, but I can't stand long, drawn-out music festivals.

- Lamorne Morris

So many writers live their whole lives in rooms. You can be too civilised in the environment you have around you, too oriented towards speaking engagements and literary festivals and dinner parties. That has no interest for me these days. You get to a point where you don't care anymore. At that point, you can start to write.

- Lawrence Osborne

Our traditions have been waking up on Christmas morning and feasting on a southern breakfast. I'm from the South. We eat grits and biscuits and gravy and eggs with Ritz crackers and country ham, bacon, you name it.

- Leigh-Allyn Baker

Film schools are now nearly 50-50 male-female, and women are also well represented at festivals and in indie film. But what happens to them after they direct their first film or short? Where do they go? They certainly aren't being given the same opportunities as their male counterparts.

- Lesli Linka Glatter

Administrations had come and gone in Pennsylvania Avenue, but many old entertaining traditions had survived - thru habit and not thru merit.

- Letitia Baldrige

Traditions are our roots and a profile of who we are as individuals and who we are as a family. They are our roots, which give us stability and a sense of belonging - they ground us.

- Lidia Bastianich

I am not a regular at film festivals.

- Lillete Dubey

There are some family traditions I don't want my children to carry on.

- Lorna Luft

Governing through federal ultimatum grates against our history, traditions, and, most importantly, our Constitution.

- Luther Strange

Even in Congo, where conflicts are happening, people have births, weddings, deaths, and celebrations.

- Lynn Nottage

Most of our American musical heritage is based on European models, but the folk hymns and spirituals are one of the most fertile and unique of our American musical traditions.

- Mack Wilberg

I've never really wanted to do the bra top or booty shorts at festivals. I'd rather be cool, casual, and comfortable, and I like wearing outfits that I can also walk on the street with. In short, I don't really dress differently at festivals.

- Madelaine Petsch

There aren't traditions of freedom in a place like Iraq. They're going to have to come to grips with a concept that they hadn't been allowed to conceive before.

- Malcolm Wallop

The holidays are my favorite time of year! Christmas was always one of the biggest celebrations in Sweden, and I look forward to the festivities each year.

- Marcus Samuelsson

Thanksgiving is one of my favorite American traditions. I quickly picked it up when I moved to the U.S. from Sweden.

- Marcus Samuelsson

At 7, I was at the barre and dancing at folk festivals. Then I was a student with the ballet school of the Metropolitan Opera.

- Maria Karnilova

A lot of Christian extremism has done a great deal to discredit religion; the main religious traditions have abandoned their own intellectual cultures so drastically that no one has any sense of it other than the fringe.

- Marilynne Robinson

At the heart of globalisation is a new kind of intolerance in the West towards other cultures, traditions and values, less brutal than in the era of colonialism, but more comprehensive and totalitarian.

- Martin Jacques

I make our family traditions a priority.

- Martina McBride

I didn't really grow up with any traditions. I grew up in a pretty liberal household in Southern California. I think that's part of my interest in thinking about heritage. I don't have a second language or cultural heritage in that way.

- Martine Syms

I have great respect for Oklahoma's tribal members, and I celebrate their traditions and culture.

- Mary Fallin

Many countries had a hand in raising me. I am the product of many contradicting philosophies and cultures... My entire universe is comprised of these foreign traditions. If any one of these experiences are to be ignored, I wouldn't be the same.

- Masiela Lusha

If I have smashed the traditions, it was because I knew no traditions.

- Maude Adams

My parents are both college professors, and it made me want to question authority, standards and traditions.

- Maya Lin

It's hard to get that real good feeling about festivals sometimes.

- Meg White

I'm from a little island off of Massachusetts, Nantucket. It's hard getting into the music business from there, but my parents took me to songwriting festivals because I would write and produce my own music.

- Meghan Trainor

We live in an age in which the biblical-moral traditions that have guided us for centuries are increasingly being forgotten.

- Meir Soloveichik

I love festivals because I feel like I'm more of a movie fan than a person who's in the film industry.

- Melanie Lynskey

A lot of movies are made, but because they come to film festivals and your movie doesn't get bought by a studio or a distributor, your movie doesn't get seen.

- Michael Angarano

Bonnaroo has kind of become the granddaddy of all American festivals. The thing I love about it most is that it wasn't born out of picking the top ten bands off the Billboard chart and creating a festival around it.

- Michael Franti

The Festival of Books is indeed a well-oiled machine, one which leaves most of the other literary festivals in America, including vaunted Brooklyn's, in the dust.

- Michelle Dean

I used to say Edinburgh was a beautiful actress with no talent. I thought it was just like a shortbread tin. I think that's because I did six Festivals in a row there, and I never saw the real Edinburgh, just a lot of deeply annoying Cambridge Footlights kids wanting to be actresses.

- Michelle Gomez

We are not abandoning our convictions, our philosophy or traditions, nor do we urge anyone to abandon theirs.

- Mikhail Gorbachev

Ritual is important to us as human beings. It ties us to our traditions and our histories.

- Miller Williams

I do think that the Constitution and the traditions of this country constrain all of us - those of us in Congress and those of us in the White House - from some of our impulses, shall I say, that we'd like to pursue.

- Mitch McConnell

The majority in the Senate is prepared to restore the Senate's traditions and precedents to ensure that regardless of party, any president's judicial nominees, after full and fair debate, receive a simple up-or-down vote on the Senate floor.

- Mitch McConnell

All we're doing is going back to what we were: a moderate Islam that is open to all religions and to the world and to all traditions and people.

- Mohammad bin Salman

Christians are not in bondage to do things as the world does, and moreover, the traditions and rudiments of men are not necessary to honor God.

- Monica Johnson

You like to think that you're bigger than your traditions and customs, but they form who you are.

- Morena Baccarin

As a screenwriter, there's so many layers you have to go through in order to tell your story. You have to write the script, get money for the script, shoot it, find distributors, make it into film festivals, all of that just to get to your audience.

- Morley

Early economic theory was rooted in the Italian, French, and Spanish traditions, which were subjectivist oriented. Then it shifted onto the terrible path by Smith and Ricardo and the British classical tradition, which is 'objectivist' - values are in inherent in production.

- Murray Rothbard

When I was designing Mrs. Obama's dress, half of me was saying, 'What would Halston do?' The other half was saying, 'Be who you are.' Halston, me, America, India - it's been such a great combination. This is what makes me who I am, with the clean lines I learned from Halston and complicated Indian over-the-top Bollywood traditions.

- Naeem Khan

Traditions are always puzzling to those who don't share them. I'm Jewish, so the idea of a 'perfect family Christmas' is foreign to me.

- Naomi Alderman

Japan is not a Western democracy. The Japanese have kept their traditions, culture and heritage, but they have joined the community of free nations.

- Natan Sharansky

It appears that PepsiCo views structural change as a sign of weakness, an admission of failure, and an untenable break with past traditions.

- Nelson Peltz

No one who is willing to work hard, abide by our laws, and love our traditions should ever feel unwelcome in this country. At the same time, that does not mean we just flat out open our borders. We can't do that.

- Nikki Haley

I love traditions. I mean, cultural ones.

- Orlando Bloom

The terrorist attacks of 9/11 briefly disrupted celebrations of a world globalised by capital and consumption.

- Pankaj Mishra

I love to score goals, and I love to plan my celebrations.

- Patrick Kane

I often imagine what it would be like if my father were still here to mark his 100th birthday, if Alzheimer's hadn't clawed away years, possibilities, hopes. What would he think of all the commemorations and celebrations?

- Patti Davis

Let's try winning and see what it feels like. If we don't like it, we can go back to our traditions.

- Paul Tsongas

I've brought the traditions from Spain to the United States: spending the afternoons with my husband and my son, enjoying the little things.

- Paz Vega

Teller and I worked Renaissance Festivals and street performing - actually more real, no kidding around, Philadelphia street performing than we did Renaissance Festivals.

- Penn Jillette

I think people expect mud at festivals, I think you'd be asking for your money back if you didn't get it.

- Peter Hook

When you look at food as an ethical issue in the Christian tradition, you don't find very much about it. You don't find, as you do in the Jewish or Islamic or Hindu traditions, a lot of restrictions saying you can eat this but you can't eat that.

- Peter Singer

Traditions are imploding and exploding everywhere - everything is coming together, for better or worse, and we can no longer pretend we're all living in different worlds because we're on different continents.

- Philip Glass

There are those who argue that the public celebration of festivals such as Christmas should be discouraged, in the questionable belief that it might somehow offend those of other religions or none.

- Pope Benedict XVI

My personal political convictions are rooted in the populist political traditions of western Canada.

- Preston Manning

For me, religious festivals and celebrations have become an important way to teach my children about how we can transform living with diversity from the superficial 'I eat ethnic food', to something dignified, mutually respectful and worthwhile.

- Randa Abdel-Fattah

I think we are evolving rapidly into one world culture. It's certainly one world economy. With billions of people online, I think we'll appreciate the wisdom in many different traditions as we learn more about them. People were very isolated and didn't know anything about other religions 100 years ago.

- Ray Kurzweil

We moved to America when I was young, but we were always very Welsh in our home. The humor, food, traditions. Very Welsh.

- Richard Brake

I first visited the Toronto fest in 1979, its fourth edition, when it was known as the Festival of Festivals and had an audience of about 40,000. I happily returned to the 10-day skein nearly every year thereafter, as attendance swelled to 400,000 and it grew into the most influential film festival in North America, perhaps the world.

- Richard Corliss

No, traditions and norms aren't rules in the Constitution. There's a difference between a tradition and a law.

- Rick Santelli

I listen to all types of different music. I go to different festivals. I'm around music.

- Rico Love

I personally adore the festival of Dussehra, as its a celebration of our culture and mythological legacy. I celebrate, almost, all my festivals with Life OK, be it Holi or Diwali or Dussehra. It's like a festive home for me.

- Rithvik Dhanjani

Our moral, religious, and political traditions are united in their respect for the dignity of human life.

- Robert Casey

I view myself more as a traditionalist than a conservative. But I like the traditions, so I tend to try to keep them alive. But I'm open to any kind of political thought - I don't care - I have people that I don't agree with, and I have good friends I don't agree with, but for me personally, I'm more comfortable with the traditional stuff.

- Roger Ailes

A lot of my reading over the next few months will be the works of Hans Christian Andersen - I have been appointed an ambassador for the bicentenary celebrations of his birth next year.

- Roger Moore

When I think about myself as a teenager going to festivals, you look to the main stage as the main entertainment of the night.

- Romy Madley Croft

Many traditions date the existence of angels and demons from a remote period before the creation of the world, but some connect the fall of Satan and his host with the creation of man.

- Sabine Baring-Gould

People throw things at me sometimes, at big festivals.

- Sam Hunt

How lucky am I? Quite often I speak at book festivals, and people ask me how I got published. There's people who have been working on a book for as long as ten years, and I feel like such a cow.

- Sara Sheridan

As far as festivals, nothing tops Cannes.

- Sasha Lane

My father is a Japanese-American and my mother is a Caucasian. So obviously, New Year's Day is big for our family, you know, oshogatsu. We had obon festivals every year. All those things.

- Scott Fujita

Every country has its political face and political traditions.

- Sergei Lavrov

An action movie should, like any other, follow the narrative traditions of literature. That means there should be subtlety, a slow build and a gradual bringing together of all the separate threads of the plot. To see all of it coming together slowly is very rewarding for the audience.

- Shane Black

I love the smaller clubs. I love the theaters. I love the festivals. There are things I don't like. At certain theaters, people can't get up and dance.

- Sharon Jones

The meditation traditions I started and have continued practicing have all emphasized inclusivity: anyone can do this who is interested.

- Sharon Salzberg

I don't go to regular music festivals because I tend to run in the opposite direction wherever there's big crowds.

- Sheryl Lee

Marriage brings one into fatal connection with custom and tradition, and traditions and customs are like the wind and weather, altogether incalculable.

- Soren Kierkegaard

Generally, when I come to festivals, I just wander freely and see what happens.

- St. Lucia

We can't allow, in my perception, our traditions, which in the Bible are really looked down upon, to stop, literally, the potential of the gospel reaching the youth of America.

- Stephen Baldwin

Archaeologists have made discoveries that challenge fundamental traditions of Judaism as well as those of Christianity and Islam.

- Stephen Kinzer

My mum was born and raised in Ghana and has a lot of Ghanaian values and traditions and morals. All that rubbed off on me, and that's why I have a lot of love and good energy in me - that universal energy is a Ghanaian thing.

- Stormzy

As traditions of mourning wane, women's role as designated mourners has also vanished. In consequence, the woman elegist must summon her own resources as an artist.

- Susan Stewart

I love living around black people. Home is home. We suffer under racism and the physical deprivations that come with that, but beneath that, we form cultures and traditions that are beautiful.

- Ta-Nehisi Coates

I'm used to promoting books, but a movie is a very different thing. You have to go to film festivals and wear fancy clothes and try and look glamorous and intelligent when you're just terrified and you want to go home!

- Tatiana de Rosnay

I think I first realized I wanted to be in country music and be an artist when I was 10. And I started dragging my parents to festivals, and fairs, and karaoke contests, and I did that for about a year before I came to Nashville for the first time. I was 11 and I had this demo CD of me singing Dixie Chicks and Leanne Rimes songs.

- Taylor Swift

One of the things people don't really recognise about the similarities between country and hip-hop is that they're celebrations of pride in a lifestyle.

- Taylor Swift

I have a deep respect for the fundamentals of television, the traditions of it, even, but I don't have any reverence for it.

- Ted Sarandos

My hat's off to documentary filmmakers. I don't know if I'm ever going back to it. You're treated like a second-class citizen at most film festivals. You take the bus while everybody else is flown first-class. If you're a feature film director, you're put in a five-star hotel, and if you're a documentary director, you stay in a Motel 6.

- Terry Zwigoff

Environment is very important to me. Sometimes I have to perform during the day for festivals, and my music does not work in the daytime. It is nighttime music.

- The Weeknd

I prefer to choose which traditions to keep and which to let go.

- Theodore Bikel

Party and ideology routinely trump institutional interests and responsibilities. Regular order - the set of rules, norms and traditions designed to ensure a fair and transparent process - was the first casualty. The results: No serious deliberation. No meaningful oversight of the executive. A culture of corruption.

- Thomas E. Mann

In small towns, bored teenagers turn their eyes longingly to the exciting doings in the big cities, pining for urban amenities like hipster bars and farmers' markets and indie-rock festivals. Like everyone else, they want the vibrant and they will not be denied.

- Thomas Frank

We're playing all these weird festivals, usually outdoors.

- Thurston Moore

People discover you at festivals. They come to see Coldplay or whoever, and then wander over and catch your act. Festivals make a lot of sense to me.

- Tinie Tempah

American movies and music deliver themes of freedom, innocence, and power that appeal to others - partly because America itself was put together out of a multiplicity of national traditions.

- Todd Gitlin

Festivals are fun for kids, fun for parents and offer a welcome break from the stresses of the nuclear family. The sheer quantities of people make life easier: loads of adults for the adults to talk to and loads of kids for the kids to play with.

- Tom Hodgkinson

My idea of childcare at festivals is to sit at a trestle table with an ale while the kids run around and make up their own games.

- Tom Hodgkinson

Long weekends at festivals, short weeks at home, all summer long: now that is surely preferable to the immense cost and headache of the nuclear family holiday in the sun?

- Tom Hodgkinson

In the best traditions of American comedy, from its beginnings through the crash-bang comedies of the 1990s and 2000s, Leslie Nielsen skewered the otherwise proper, did it with mischievous delight and convulsed audiences mercilessly.

- Tom Shales

The Senate as an institution is broken. We're not doing the work of the American people and the rules are being abused. The only way to get us back to the traditions where the Senate is doing the work of the American people is to change the rules.

- Tom Udall

Radical Chic, after all, is only radical in Style; in its heart it is part of Society and its traditions.

- Tom Wolfe

Statues are one of the ways I try to test the traditions of European culture against the most modern destructive forces. I often make a point of seeking them out and have used them as mouthpieces in my film poetry, as with Heinrich Heine in 'The Gaze of the Gorgon.'

- Tony Harrison

People who come out of the liberal arts don't have an understanding of science and technology, and the people in science and technology have very little experience with liberal arts and the traditions of a liberal democracy.

- Toomas Hendrik Ilves

Growing up, I was brought up around Irish music, Irish traditions.

- Tyson Fury

Violin playing is a physical art with great traditions behind it.

- Vanessa Mae

I was in a music class when I was little, and they discovered I had a talent and could sing. From there, I joined this singing troupe in California, and I would just go sing at festivals in this girl group and perform as much as I could.

- Vanessa Morgan

Toronto Film Festival is one of those festivals where there are 400 movies, and unless you have a distributor who is super confident and puts a lot of money into it, sometimes movies can go unwatched or unnoticed.

- Viggo Mortensen

The food we eat is our identity. The youth of the nation must save our food culture and traditions. If not, it will affect future generations.

- Vijay Sethupathi

I get invited to many more literary festivals than I used to because I'm associated with 'Slumdog Millionaire,' the brand. Many more doors have opened up for me as a result of the global success of the film, although I believe that I'm the same person that existed before it.

- Vikas Swarup

Take seriously the traditions, the Christian roots, and all the values that are the basis of the civilisation of Europe.

- Viktor Orban

There are big countries and small countries, rich and poor, those with long democratic traditions and those still finding their way to democracy.

- Vladimir Putin

In many countries today, moral and ethical norms are being reconsidered; national traditions, differences in nation and culture are being erased.

- Vladimir Putin

I always look for the weirdest note to land on. I felt that that was the least I could do for the great musical traditions which I've spawned.

- Walter Becker

Truth is, generally I like film festivals; somewhere at some level there's an exchange of ideas.

- Willem Dafoe

I like festivals of all kinds: in 1969, I made a film about the first Pan-African festival in Algiers, which celebrated the countries that had been liberated 10 years earlier. There was a tremendous feeling of kinship.

- William Klein

When the soldiers came home from Vietnam, there were no parades, no celebrations. So they built the Vietnam Memorial for themselves.

- William Westmoreland

I began writing early - very, very early... I was already writing short stories for the radio and selling poems to poetry and art festivals; I was involved in school plays; I wrote essays, so there was no definite moment when I said, 'Now I'm a writer.' I've always been a writer.

- Wole Soyinka

At film festivals, I put on my sunglasses and go to sleep because I don't want to see my films again.

- Wong Kar-wai

Does the global Left - as well as the Israeli Left - truly not care about the horrific Taliban regime, the terrible oppression of women in Gulf states, and the mass hanging festivals in Iran?

- Yair Lapid

Film festivals are usually unpleasant experiences on some level. The lines are ridiculous, the crowds are ridiculous, or the schedules are impossibly arranged: 'You say that there's a film you really want to see? Try the 8 A.M. show! Oh, it's too bad you didn't get to bed until 2 A.M. the night before.'

- Yance Ford

Design can successfully bind the ancient nomadic cultures with today's global marketplace, ensuring the preservation of traditions and knowledge for further generations. This aspect of research is obviously rich in its business potential as well.

- Yelena Baturina

But an innovation, to grow organically from within, has to be based on an intact tradition, so our idea is to bring together musicians who represent all these traditions, in workshops, festivals, and concerts, to see how we can connect with each other in music.

- Yo-Yo Ma

It doesn't seem expected for us to do something like that, but I love electronic music. I spend a lot of my time listening to that and just trying to understand what makes it work - what makes it move people the way it does and why they have some of the best-selling festivals in the world.

- Zac Brown