Quotes About Legacy

I've always wanted to sing, just as I've always known that one day I would have my own niche in the annals of song. It was a feeling I had.

Bob Marley's in every new day. There's not one day that his music is not played all over the world.

But I also want to have a family with children one day, which is very important to me.

When you're caught up in your career, you're not thinking about becoming a legend one day or how, 25 years from now, you'll be immortalized in something or that you might be going into the Hall of Fame.

One day I would love to have a couple children.

One of the things I want to do as an artist is to connect generations.

I never mind talking about my dad. I'm proud of who he is, and being his son is one of the things I'm most proud of. To be constantly compared to someone so brilliant, who happens to be your dad, is cool.

One of the things I noticed is that people really change when they realize their expiration date is coming, and they know what it is. Most of us don't: we just hope we can live as long as we can and do as much good as we can.

One of the things I did in my book, I start off with, is explaining how great our grace was: the things we were able to accomplish after the first one-hundred years from slavery.

The achievements we forge in this place and in our nation will not be those of one person or one party.

I don't want to die thinking I've only done one thing in my life.

One thing I carried my whole life, especially from my grandparents in Chicago, was a huge idealism for the world.

Well, for one thing, you know my dad was a cop.

One thing that's great about seeing your kids is you see things that you admired in your parents.

I have only worked with Saroj Ji once in my life and in the one time that I worked with her, I learned so many things.

When I sit here and see that the eight brothers from the neighborhood that I grew up with still have success, it had to be magical. I doubt if you get another 'Wu-Tang Clan.' That might be harder than getting the new 'Jackson Five.' Certain groups you only get one time, and we just happened to be that group.

It was at Inver Slane, to the north of Leinster, the sons of Gaedhal of the Shining Armour, the Very Gentle, that were called afterwards the Sons of the Gael, made their first attempt to land in Ireland to avenge Ith, one of their race that had come there one time and had met with his death.

You see so many musicians come and go. For me, it's really about the longevity in the music industry. It's not all about having a lot of hit records at one time.

My father said to me at one time, 'If you are still a disc jockey by the time you are 30, you better find another line of work.' Little does he realize, I am in my 70s, and I still do seven or eight hours of radio every day - or every week.

I did, one time, over the past couple years look into maybe doing a little something in a Royal Rumble, just kind of as that, so that could be my last chapter, so the last time you see me is, y'know, this little thing, and it didn't work out.

I don't mind having a one-hit wonder as long as I have a career in show business, which has been fabulous.

I want people to see that I'm not a one-hit wonder.

I am not trying to model my career to be a one-hit wonder.

I'm glad 'Honest' came out right after 'Karate Chop,' because I don't want to be seen as a one-hit wonder.