Quotes About Legacy

It is very hard for me to think of Logan without thinking of Hugh Jackman and I have no idea who out there could take over from him if they moved ahead. It's like thinking of anyone other than Harrison Ford playing Han Solo or Indiana Jones.

I would have loved to record with Paul McCartney on some of his early solo recordings, wonderful music. Playing some lovely organ, perhaps. I would have loved to record with John Lennon. He was a dear friend. I had lunch with him just two days before he died.

It's hard to solo when you're walking around, especially when you're in Michael Jackson's presence. There are easier things in life to do.

It's imperative that I continue putting together the best shows and take it to the next level. I'm talking to people about holograms, and my dream is to do the hologram drum solo with dad next to me.

When I meet people, a lot of people know me from different things whether it be when I was in the group or my solo stuff or 'You Got Served' or movies, it's really interesting that that film is a part of history. That's nuts.

My mum was a quintessential businesswoman. She taught me problem-solving. She can solve any problem.

If you wish to reflect credit upon your parents, accomplish more than they did, solve problems that they could not understand, and build better than they knew.

President Obama came to office proclaiming that he aims to solve problems, not hand them on to our children. Most presidents say that sort of thing.

Once Ray was a Ewing, all the problems were solved.

A movie like 'Selma' should be a relic in a time capsule from 1965, a clue to how well we heeded King's words and how far we have advanced. Instead, it is a reminder that the 'American problem' has yet to be solved.

Some have called Afghanistan 'the graveyard of empires,' and it probably is the graveyard of empires.

The fear of becoming a 'has-been' keeps some people from becoming anything.

Some people say to me, Isn't it too bad that people discovered you so late? I never thought that.

Some people care about their work lasting forever - I have little interest in it.

Picabia is a very old painter who some people try to connect me to, but I refuse such comparisons very well.

As an artist, I feel so fortunate to be able to learn from all these great musicians that came before me, when some people have nobody that came before them.

At a certain point he was very popular, from THE RAVEN. He was never fully appreciated, never made the money, and you know he was looked upon with admiration by some people, but also as an oddball. But that was his point.

Time is very precious to me. I don't know how much I have left and I have some things that I would like to say. Hopefully, at the end, I will have said something that will be important to other people too.

It's very weird about movies: you never know which ones are going to stay alive and which one are going to be meaningless. When you're there, you couldn't possibly predict it. Some things slowly die, and others slowly stay a while.

You don't go to Notre Dame to learn something; you go to Notre Dame to be somebody.

Life is short, and, once somebody is gone, they're gone.

I just want to be like a good example to somebody in the future.

If somebody had said to me in June or July of 1987, 'We'd like you to become chairman of the Federal Reserve, but you're never allowed to discuss any economics after you leave,' I'd have said, 'Forget it.' What do they want me to do? Become an anthropologist?'

Every job you do, somebody's looking at it. You're leaving an impression on somebody. What is going to be your footprint?