Quotes About Legacy

It's hard not to be impressed by my older relatives.

After Huguette Clark died in 2011 at age 104, 19 relatives challenged her will, claiming she was mentally ill and had been defrauded by her nurse, attorney and accountant.

In China, the dead are not forgotten - my relatives cheerfully pointed out all the niches of deceased friends and family, as if gesturing at the homes of the living.

While I'm here, I'm gonna milk it for all I can, so when I'm no longer hot - and I know that day is coming - I will step over here and enjoy everything I've created up to this point. The music is just opening all these doors, so I can relax.

If you stop now and start to realise what you have achieved, then you start to relax, and you start to lose. I don't think about everything I have achieved. I will do it when I retire because then I will have a lot of days to remember.

Until I have that belt, defended that belt and left a legacy with my name and what I've done in that cage, then I'll have time to relax and take in what I've done.

When you're the host of the Academy Awards, and you grew up watching Bob Hope and Johnny Carson, and now it's your turn, and you get a chance to run with the baton on the relay for a while, I really embraced it and just really loved being there.

I want to be somebody, a person, first that people remember, but also, I want music that I release to still be around. I don't want it to just be cool for a second and be gone.

I believe filmmakers must travel with their creations long after release.

When I came back to Hindi cinema, I realized a generation had forgotten me completely.

I am very happy for the respect shown towards my father, Raj Kapoor-ji, the greatest showman of Hindi cinema.

I solemnly assure you that I will not die as a Hindu.

Yuri Gagarin, the first man in space, may have had his charms, but he really couldn't be considered hip.

As much as I would like to be the one who saved hip-hop culture, it's pretty much nigh-on impossible.

Compton got such a legacy in hip-hop.

The Bronx is famous for two things. Hip-hop, and 26 world championships.

A lot of people forget that R&B put hip-hop on, R&B put rock on.

I've never been a mega-star. I'm more of a tastemaker of hip-hop. I try to be more of an ambassador for the era of hip-hop that I came in.

When my time is up in hip-hop, it's going to remain what Afrika Bambaataa thought it was supposed to be. It's going to remain what Kool Herc thought it was supposed to be; what Wu-Tang Clan sees it as; what Outkast sees it as; what Snoop Dogg sees it as. People are trying to forget that brand of hip-hop.

I plan on making my mark on the legacy of hip-hop, period, but also in Atlanta production because there's a lot of history there.

I honestly now know that I'm the physical embodiment of hip-hop on earth. That's my only purpose here on earth is to keep the culture together long enough for it to remain everything that we thought it could be when I was coming up.

I wouldn't want to end up in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as the 'Master of Hip-Hop Samples,' but you take what you can get.

Something I often say is, 'I stand on the shoulders of the people who came before, and I'm ready to lift up people to stand on my shoulders.' And one of the ways we can do that is to hire them.

Sure, it does help you get into a room, but at the end of the day, you have to be able to deliver, and you have to be talented, because they're not going to hire me because my dad is David Cassidy, who was famous in the '70s.