Quotes About Legacy

I want to create a body of work that is really, deeply important to people. One of the vehicles I use is business.

I believe there is a strong familial pull as the influence of beloved ancestors continues with us from the other side of the veil.

Eventually, when I recorded 'Release Me,' it sort of stamped my style, and I've followed in that vein ever since.

That's what you want to do as an older artist - you want to reinvent, but there has to be that vein in there for why people were listening to you before in the first place.

I thought I'd have a career playing women in the vein of Ruth Gordon, and we've seen that type almost disappear.

Since I was a boy - born into a farming family in Bonaire, GA - I've had agriculture running through my veins.

I'm very proud of my heritage and the blood that runs through my veins. I take a lot of strength from that.

I've got Disney blood running through my veins.

People ask me 'Are you copying your dad?' It is in my blood. I have got royal blood coursing through my veins. I can't help myself doing what my father did.

I'm always going to be a Celtic no matter what. It's always going to be in my veins. Once you live there and play for that team and win a championship, it doesn't matter where you go.

I've got royal blood coursing through my veins and if the boxing bug is 'something I've inherited through the family bloodline, I'm proud of my genes.

If Gretzky was velvet, Ovechkin is electricity.

If they were starting their careers today, Rockwell and Picasso would probably both be painting on black velvet.

My favorite model of success is when people say, 'Nobody bought that first Velvet Underground album, but everyone who did started a band.'

The crucial legacy of the personal computer is that anyone can write code for it and give or sell that code to you - and the vendors of the PC and its operating system have no more to say about it than your phone company does about which answering machine you decide to buy.

Under the veneer of Westernization, the cultures of the Indian world - which have existed for 30,000 years! - continue to live. Sometimes in a magical way, sometimes in the shadows.

One of my biggest inspirations is President Hugo Chavez of Venezuela. Yea, President Hugo.

I think there's a lot of, unfortunately, unfunny ventriloquists out there, so they've got a bad rap. It came after Edgar Bergen because everybody had a little cheeky boy dummy like Charlie McCarthy, and everybody decided to become a ventriloquist because Bergen had popularized it. He brought it back from the doldrums of vaudeville.

The basic idea of 'The Venture Brothers' was taking the world of 'Jonny Quest' and jumping back into 30 years later, seeing how someone who grew up like Jonny - with that kind of space race enthusiasm and disregard for other cultures - would turn out. Dr. Venture is a boy genius who didn't grow up to be what he should have been.

After The Ventures I dug Johnny Smith quite a bit.

Even if it's a horrible venue - a bar that barely has a PA and no lighting - we're still there trying to get somebody to not forget us.

As it seems, Spa is a good venue for the Schumacher family.

I'm in hotel rooms night after night, playing a lot of the same venues as my dad and carrying the guitar that used to be his. We're the same person. I don't know if he realises how much of a legacy he has left to his children.

Each new generation builds on the work of the previous one, gaining new perspective. New verbs are introduced. We Google strange and dangerous places. We tweet mindlessly to the cosmos. We Facebook our own grandmothers. I, for one, don't want to be left behind.