Quotes About Legacy

I'd like to think I've left something in the world. Without in any way trying to be morbid, but life is very short, and I'd like to think I'd leave some body of work that would inspire other musicians long after I've gone.

I think what made John Lennon so exciting as an artist is that, like Dylan and other musicians with a truly important musical legacy, he had several faces, personas that changed over time as he developed.

There's no background of creativity in my family; there are no actors or musicians.

Both my grandfathers and my mother's brother were musicians.

I have to continue to make the older musicians proud and brush up on my skills.

I would look at older blues musicians who just keep going into their seventies. They keep doing it until they drop dead. And I've always felt like that's what I want to do. I've felt that since the day I was able to start playing music for a living. I don't see the point of thinking about retiring because it's not work to begin with.

I bought a Jaguar when I was 28. I'd always wanted one. I had it for years, then my friend had it, then my dad had it. It was a good workhorse.

Somebody asked my friend Bob Seger, Why do you think the Eagles broke up? He said, Hotel California.

If the people that love you are the people at your side on your last day, and there's not a soul in that room that has any bad words to say about you, well, I'd say Heaven awaits you, my friend.

Eighteen years doing this, my friend. Eighteen years - combat sport. I think you will not find this in history, I believe.

Dan Rooney was my boss, my father, my friend, my mentor.

I want to do what Kid Cudi did for kids for my generation.

Hey, I'm just trying to become the Michael Caine/Gene Hackman of my generation.

And my generation in Brazil was influenced by Cinema Novo. So we're echoing what's been done way in the past.

I accept the calling of my generation to give our children the America that was given to us, with opportunity for the young and security for the old - and I know that we are ready.

My generation has left the globe in a mess.

I wanted to make some of the really important things of my generation and some of the biggest.

Feel ashamed of my generation. We've let down our children and their children.

A lot of people in my generation have dared to ask questions like, 'Who is James Dean?' And I can't imagine asking a question like that, just because it's been ingrained in me since I was so young.

The past is always recycled. I'm just taking what the people I looked up to did and translating it for my generation.

Japanese feel an intimacy with the dead, at least for people up to my generation.

I cannot let Justin Trudeau do to my children what his father did to my generation.

I've had an affinity for Michael Jordan. He's probably the greatest athlete in my generation.

In fact, many of us from my generation of actors are in the profession because we were all deeply inspired by Sridevi.