Anoushka Shankar Quotes

Change does not change tradition, it strengthens it. Change is a challenge and anopportunity, not a threat.

Change is no threat to culture.

Tradition, by its very nature, includes continuous change.

Tradition can, to be sure, participate in a creation, but it can no longer be creative itself.

Civilisations which get cut off from their traditions and values do not survive for long.

You can embrace nostalgia and history and tradition at the same time - it has to progress or it can't survive.

I adore tradition. I cannot stand habit. Simply to repeat is nothing, also to destroy is nothing. Tradition is never interrupted, we are always evolving but never interrupted.

A tradition is kept alive only by something being added to it.

When you talk about change, you know what makes it really tough for people is on the one hand you've got tradition, and on the other hand you've got change; in many people's mind, change equals modernization. Tradition, however. I'm a big tradition guy.

Life develops, changes, is in motion. The forms of literature are not.

In America nothing dies easier than tradition.

Cultures, for better or worse, are very stable.

I do not believe that civilizations have to die because civilization is not an organism. It is a product of wills.

When a tradition gathers enough strength to go on for centuries, you don't just turn it off one day.

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.

If we are to preserve culture we must continue to create it.

Culture is our nature, and the ability to learn and change is our most important and fundamental instinct.

Civilization is not inherited; it has to be learned and earned by each generation anew; if the transmission should be interrupted for one century, civilization would die, and we should be savages again.

Because human nature evolved in an era before collective learning accelerated, we are all fitted to living in a world that does not change much after our formative years.

The point of human evolution is adapting to circumstance. Not letting go of the old, but adapting it, is necessary.

Niaqornat particularly seemed to offer a heightened version of a story being played out across the world about traditional communities' struggle for survival and their attempts to renegotiate their identity in the face of modern life.

As generations come and go, Their arts, their customs, ebb and flow; Fate, fortune, sweep strong powers away, And feeble, of themselves, decay.

Culture is a slingshot moved by the force of its past

All culture developed as some wild, raw creature strived to live better and longer.

But a people unable to reform will not be able to preserve its old culture either.