Quotes About Legacy

It feels wonderful that people, both young and old, listen to our music, and that it still makes an impact.

I want to leave Accenture better than I found it. I am focused on investing our people, our community and effective diversity and inclusion initiatives.

We gotta leave a better planet for our kids. And I would say we gotta leave better kids for our planet as well.

Justice Ginsburg is a shining example of how one person can impact our world and truly make a difference. May her memory be a blessing.

Nelson Mandela, a better man, not a bitter man, made our world a better place in which to live. His life and leadership exemplify the highest courage, dignity, and dedication to human liberation.

I just know I have so much to teach my child. And I just feel kind of like, what would our world be without mothers? What would our world be without mother love? I don't think we'd have a world.

If I had to do it all over again, would I want my dad here? I would say no. Our world is in a better place because our father gave his life.

Ours is the only country deliberately founded on a good idea.

We need to step up because our past generations did their jobs; we now need to do ours.

The Greeks, the Italians, and the Indians, from whom we get our ideas, erect monuments to ideas; we erect ours to men, and of such monuments we have an oversupply.

Great lives never go out; they go on.

I'll be damned if I'm going to let the white man lick me. There's something out here that I've got to do for my kids, and I'm not going to stop until I've done it.

Everything that I write is sort of autobiographical, and I don't know that I'm getting better, but I'm certainly running out of time.

I don't know what the outcome will be. I put a couple away for my grandkids, like that. So I don't know, who knows? Maybe I'll start building guitars for a living.

And what makes Bob Dylan stories interesting is that the only person who can decide their outcome is Bob Dylan, so you never know how they're going to go.

Here's the deal: You can't go in with the intent that, 'All right, we're gonna write another 'Free Bird' or 'What's Your Name.'' You can't think about it in those terms, because you'll never outdo your history.

But one of the most important and lasting things my father taught me was a love of the outdoors and how to respect it. I have tried to pass that curiosity and respect on to my kids and to others.

There was a chance for me to write one song for the section where Elvis sat in his black leather outfit and sang the old hits. At eight oclock the next morning I had written Memories.

If you write great songs with meaning and emotion, they will last for ever because songs are the key to everything. Songs will outlast the artist and they will go on for ever if they are good.

I suppose in the long run, it's the good work that outlasts the shoddy work, but there's enough room for all kinds of writing.

If what you create does not outlive you, then you have failed.

Sometimes a famous subject may even outlive his own obituary writer.

I don't want to outlive my money.

I would like the Hunter Foundation to outlive everything.