Quotes About Legacy

When people come up to me and say, 'You made it,' I think, 'But I'm not done yet. Not everyone's heard my music.' I want to be a household name.

I understand people want to hold on to their roots.

Everyone knows Jordan as a winner, and that's what I want to be known as at the end of my playing career. Someone who's won multiple NBA Championships and has made a difference in the NBA.

People asked me what I want as an epitaph: 'He tried'

I'm tired of reading about history, I want to make it.

I thought that if I were going into old age I would want to do what [Giuseppe] Verdi did, which is to write extraordinary things, and to really find myself.

I will write on the pages of history what I want them to say. I will be myself. I will speak my own name.

It's in my blood. My great-grandfather made wine and it's a tradition I want to pass on to my son.

In the distant future, I don't want to be remembered; I want to remember!

Whitney Houston's voice was the very first voice I fell in love with. She was the voice that made me want to become a singer.

The young have to kill the old. The young, if they want to achieve their own platform, have to diminish the reputations of the ones that have gone before. That's how life works.

Everything the black people are doing comes from the Honorable Elijah Mohammed. They are black now, they don't want to be called Negroes. This come from the Honorable Elijah Mohammed.

There are probably a couple of things I'd never write about until everyone I know is dead. And then there's other stuff which nobody would want to read a book about anyway.

I don't think there is much history can say about me. I just want to be remembered as part of that collective.

I have a feeling of reverence about my father being in his 80s - a feeling that I want to whisper, take soft steps, not intrude too much. He's like a stately old cathedral to me now.

I woke up one day and thought: I want to write a book about the history of my body. I could justify talking about my mother because it was in her body that my body began.

I feel that if I said anything about John, I would have to sit here for five days and say it all. Or I don't want to say anything.

The curse of cyberspace is that everything we want to preserve will get lost and everything we want to lose will be preserved.

In my Olympic history I don't think I have achieved my potential as an athlete. That's what I want when I look back at my career. I want to be able to say I gave it my best shot.

We have a new generation of very rich people who want to do more with their money than buy a lot of expensive toys. They want to live meaningful lives.

I joined Genesis when I was 19. I've earned the right to actually do nothing. I don't want to be a shadow of what I was, so I've kind of just quite willingly stood back.

What kind of America do people want to leave for their children? What horrors are down the road, stuff that was unthinkable 30 years ago?

As long as God lets me live, I want to do things that make a difference in the world besides play music.

I just think, who wants new soul? I want my soul to be the same as Otis Redding, I don't wanna have a new one.