Quotes About Legacy

Music is my life, professionally, for nearly 60 years. To be recognized by the academy is still the highest honor.

I never wanted to be famous; I only wanted to be great.

Goodbye don't mean gone.

Billy Graham Dead? We Know Better.

All you have to do is relax and feel your history, because it will never go away and there is no future without it.

Your influence on us all, from 1939 on, cannot be measured. i can only say i remember, warmly, your many kindnesses to me when i was 192021 years old. that young man basked in your light and will continue to be grateful for the help you offered when i was so poor & needful!

Her apprehensions about my becoming Mr. Multimixer had been laid to rest at this point, and I don't think she ever got over the shock of discovering that we were nearly $100,000 in debt. She couldn't seem to handle it. For me, this was the first phase of grinding it out—building my personal monument to capitalism. I paid tribute, in the feudal sense, for many years before I was able to rise with McDonald's on the foundation I had laid.

When those who name dead people have gone, there just remains the calmness of foreign cemeteries, in which nothing appears familiar and nothing frightens you.

I thought we were gonna open up the world of poetry and music to all kinds of things, and yet, I can't really think of anyone who's done anything like it since.

In the American mind, the outcome of the Revolution has always overshadowed the event itself.

There were two things going on: 1) I had already established in my own mind where I wanted to go with the next series, and having James around as a Grey Eminence would have complicated matters. He had had an amazing life and it was time to bid him good-bye.

Victory has a thousand fathers, but defeat is an orphan.

My dear dead mother wanted me to go into an honorable trade, like grave robbing. Would I listen? No. Be an assassin, like your uncle Gustav, she said. Would I pay heed? No. Apprentice to the Necromancer?

I did not know then how much was ended. When I look back now from this high hill of my old age, I can still see the butchered women and children lying heaped and scattered all along the crooked gulch as plain as when I saw them with eves still young. And I can see that something else died there in the bloody mud, and was buried in the blizzard. A people's dream died there. It was a beautiful dream.

It's amazing, isn't it? Here we are, two thousand years later, with everything we've accomplished, everything we know, and yet this little talisman still rules the way billions of people live…and die.

My fame will outshine that of Victor Hugo or Napoleon.

Life is too short to do mediocre work. Measure twice, cut once. Raise the bar. Exceed expectations. Create value. Leave your mark.

My goals have changed throughout my life. At one time it was winning awards, selling out concert dates, selling more albums than anyone else. Now, my goals are to see my grandchildren grown, live a long and healthy life with my family and friends and travel the world.

At this time when I turn 50, because so there's many of my friends and family who didn't get to see 50-years-old, and so, I'm celebrating for them too.

A little gift from her mother who made Linda what she was –a damn survivor.

We each carry our own designated end within us, our very own death ripening at its own rate inside of us. There are insignificant people who are harboring unawares the grandeur of large deaths. We carry it in us like a darkening fruit. It opens and spills out. That is death.

Plato dramatically puts the detachment of the philosopher from his time this way: to philosophize is to prepare to die.

cuando te hagas valer a ti mismo y a tu pasado (por no mencionar el futuro), otras personas se sientan motivadas a hacer lo mismo. Así podrás marcar una diferencia duradera e importante en el mundo.

I don't want to bust my butt for the rest of my life, like my parents.