"When I went back to England after a year away, the country seemed stuck, dozing in a fairy tale, stifled by the weight of tradition"
- Brian Eno
About this Quote
Brian Eno's quote paints a vivid image of England as a nation that is stuck in the past, unable to progress. The expression "sleeping in a fairytale" indicates that England is staying in a dream-like state, incapable to get up as well as embrace the modern world. The "weight of custom" suggests that England is born down by its lengthy history and also the personalizeds and also ideas that have been passed down with generations. This quote suggests that England is embeded a rut, unable to proceed and innovate. It is a suggestion that, while tradition is important, it is also crucial to move forward and embrace adjustment.
"Homer's whole language, the language in which he lived, the language that he breathed, because he never saw it, or certainly those who formed his tradition never saw it, in characters on the pages. It was all on the tongue and in the ear"
"Monty Python crowd; half of them came from Cambridge, and half of them came from Oxford. But, there seems to be this jewel, this sort of two headed tradition of doing comedy, of doing sketches, and that kind of thing"
"I don't really know of the Jewish tradition of comedy, only the Jewish tradition of not keeping your mouth shut. Complaining about all that is hard, unfair or ridiculous in life-having strong feelings, and not being able to suppress them. That, to me, is Jewish"
"Jackass: The Movie is great. I think it's in the tradition of physical comedy, which I'm really interested in. Its relationship to gravity, and how gravity acts on the body"
"However, I began to submit poems to British magazines, and some were accepted. It was a great moment to see my first poems published. It felt like entering a tradition"
"I say it is indispensable to look ahead of and behind oneself in the present. If there is such a thing as tradition, and I believe there is, it can only exist in the sense of the most profound movements of culture"
