Quotes About Legacy

Hollywood didn't kill Marilyn Monroe, it's the Marilyn Monroes who are killing Hollywood.

My favorite actress is Marilyn Monroe.

I would have loved to have met Marilyn Monroe and have dinner with her.

I want to be the new Marilyn Monroe.

Everybody who's played Marilyn Monroe before has gone down in flames. It's impossible to capture Marilyn Monroe.

I basically read every book ever written about Marilyn Monroe.

Imagine my name being taken in the same breath as Marilyn Monroe and Madonna.

Hopefully I've given something back to darts, which has been brilliant to me. Hopefully I made it a bit popular when I first started; I was part of the breakaway, and I also created a monster, so I think I've done a little bit.

Sarabhai' is a monster that continues to grow and win millions of hearts.

I think Wes Montgomery is the greatest jazz guitarist that ever lived.

I met Malcolm the month before he was killed. He deeply changed my mind about America.

I was at Ford for 32 years. I went to Chrysler in 1978, four or five months after I got canned by Henry Ford.

The Montreal Canadiens have been a big part of my family.

A monument's dimensions should be determined by the importance to civilization of the events commemorated.

You can never criticize a monumental musician like Jon Lord or Richie Blackmore, or the part they played in the group, but life goes on.

Monuments are for the living, not the dead.

America has no monuments to ideas; her monuments are erected to individuals.

I am not concerned about my posthumous fame. Monuments are no good to the dead.

I don't want a monument. We don't build monuments; we build God's Kingdom.

There are all kinds of monuments to adults - usually dead and usually white. But we don't often lift up the extraordinary work of children.

The Beatles never got through to all ages, nor did Elvis Presley, or any of the other monuments of mediocrity that we've had.

I'm very lucky that people are able to say, 'Oh, that's that Moody Blues guy!' I'm very fortunate with that. That's all. Without the songs, I think, I'd just be a pretty average karaoke singer. In the end, it comes down to the songs: the strength of the songs.

I don't care if people compare me to my grandmother. I can never be like my grandmother. Nor was my grandmother ever like me. People may compare me with her or my mother, Moon Moon. But I am cool about it.

I'm not looking to be famous, but I want a body of work and a moral character that is deserving of fame.