Nuno Bettencourt Quotes

You have to modernise; you have to change - you can't just be traditional for the fun of being traditional.

Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse.

You must be in tune with the times and prepared to break with tradition.

It's interesting as one grows older to keep in touch with the cutting edge.

We live in a changing world … shall we maintain all our theaters in the same traditional box.

To endeavor to rehabilitate the sabbath of our forefathers is as foolish as to try to make people go back into log houses and cook in a fire-place. Some persons can never realize that the world grows; that what was a help to one age becomes a hindrance to another; that time corrects the mistakes of men and that respect and reverence for our ancestors does not necessarily require us to adopt their clothes or their habits.

If we don't move with time, we'll be stuck in old ways.

I'm not sure I want to preserve the old ways just for the sake of saying, 'I don't believe in change.'

We can't be beholden to the past.

Change is always good. You can't keep tradition all the time. Yes, Grandma cooked on a wood stove but she would have used electricity if she could.

We have to keep pace with changing times.

Rock & roll has kept us alive for all these years. But we just love country music. It's in our blood.

It's good to be progressive, but don't shun the good things about tradition.

It's time to realise that tradition is fantastic but if because of tradition and only tradition you lose everyone it's less fantastic so you have to keep some tradition to this sport of course but you also have to live in your century.

I didn't grow up with country music, but I appreciate the lyrics.

You've got to change with time.

You need to dismount when your horse is dead. What was relevant 20 years ago is no longer relevant today. Therefore, you need to reinvent yourself.

It is always good to keep learning. Every day things change and we should recycle ourselves every day.

It's time to bring a change because the world is changing. Let's open our minds and live in present.

There are always people who are into the old way of doing things. I don't think it's a bad thing necessarily, but things change - nothing stays the same. If you can stay true to yourself, you're always going to be legendary.

You're always going to get comparisons. Everybody comes out and says, 'He's the next so and so,' or, 'He reminds me of so and so.' I have so many influences and stuff in my brain, who knows what's going to pop in and come out.

The one thing that I always try and take with me, if there's, like, a remake, or you're doing something again, is that every generation has a new story to tell.

It just sort of happened. I wrote like what I'd always read and what was in the movies... I'm sure popular music is supposed to be like this.

I miss the old Kanye, straight from the 'Go Kanye, Chop up the soul Kanye, set on his goals Kanye, I hate the new Kanye, the bad mood Kanye, The always rude Kanye, spaz in the news Kanye...

Fashion will last forever. It will exist always. It will exist in its own way in each era. I live in the moment. It's interesting to know the old methods. But you have to live in the present moment.