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People will always be tempted to wipe their feet on anything with 'welcome' written on it.

I like to be buttoned onto tradition. The thing is to improve it, twist it and mold it; to make something new of it; not to deny it. The riches of history can be plucked at any point.

We are all part of a tradition, at least we depend on the past.

I hate being barefoot.

Nobody says you have to be shackled to tradition.

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

I'm the proof - you can't throw away tradition.

I used to think I had this responsibility to carry on this tradition. Now I just feel like I have to keep the dance out there, keep it in the public eye.

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