#custom

Traditions that cease to evolve render themselves irrelevant or obsolete. And what's the problem with inventing new performance practices? Are customs being slandered? Do successful alternative diminish the value of traditional ones? *The argument that musicians must embrace conventional rituals is just as perilous as unilaterally rejecting them.* ↗

— David Cutler

#music #musicians #performance #performance-practice #traditions

[H]e is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

#barbarism #customs #law #nature #self-centered

Custom is second nature. ↗

— Augustine of Hippo

#nature #second

The customs and fashions of men change like leaves on the bough, some of which go and others come. ↗

— Dante Alighieri

#change #come #customs #fashions #go

The best plan now is to have as many bosses as possible. I call it boss diversity. If you work for a company and you have one boss and that boss doesn't like you or wants to get rid of you, you're in trouble. But if you work for yourself, you have lots of bosses, who are your customers, and if a few of them decide they don't like you, that's okay. ↗

— Scott Adams

#boss #bosses #call #company #customers

One of the strengths I derive from my class background is that I am accustomed to contempt. ↗

— Dorothy Allison

#am #background #class #class background #contempt

I design for real people. I think of our customers all the time. There is no virtue whatsoever in creating clothing or accessories that are not practical. ↗

— Giorgio Armani

#accessories #clothing #creating #customers #i

Rather than be asked to abandon one's own heritage and to adapt to the mores of the new country, one was expected to possess a treasure of foreign skills and customs that would enrich the resources of American living. ↗

— Rudolf Arnheim

#adapt #american #asked #country #customs

Ignorance and a narrow education lay the foundation of vice, and imitation and custom rear it up. ↗

— Mary Astell

#education #foundation #ignorance #imitation #lay

The thing with Linux is that the developers themselves are actually customers too: that has always been an important part of Linux. ↗

— Linus Torvalds

#always #been #customers #developers #important