Quotes About Legacy

When she started to play, Steinway came down personally and rubbed his name off the piano.

I want to reach the point where people hear my name and immediately think of real country music.

Men have died for this music. You can't get more serious than that.

Even if the world ends, the Music will still survive...

As long as the music stayed hot and important and good, that there would always be a reason for 'Soul Train'

My father has been a voice of encouragement in times of desperation for so many people. But he died when I was so young that, for me, his music has been a way for me to get to know him better.

Money had never been the main thing for me. It's the legacy that was important.

Years from now, after I'm gone, someone will listen to what I've done and know I was here. They may not know or care who I was, but they'll hear my guitars speaking for me.

Without Elvis none of us could have made it.

I want to be like Gandhi, and Martin Luther King, and John Lennon... but I want to stay alive.

If there's any such thing as a perfect man, I think John Coltrane was one. And I think that kind of perfection has to come from a greater force than there is here on earth.

Irving Berlin has no place in American music -- he is American music.

Ask anyone. If it hadn't been for Elvis, I don't know where popular music would be. He was the one that started it all off, and he was definitely the start of it for me.

Whatever I'd say would be an understatement. I can only say my life was made much better by knowing him. He was one of the greatest people I've ever known, as a man, a friend, and a musician.

When you get to the top, don't forget to send the elevator down for the next guy.

The great tragedy of the average man is that he goes to his grave with his music still in him.

My lifelong friend and mentor Frank Barsalona is gone. And the music business as we knew it went with him.

I hope we left you with something to put under your pillows.

I'll probably be 80 years old and still performing. Music is like fashion, it changes. But some things will always be the same.

Rock 'n' roll will never die. There'll always be some arrogant little brat who wants to make music with a guitar.

The death of classical music is perhaps its oldest continuing tradition.

George Jones may be gone but his music will live on forever. What a great voice and a great friend.

I had no idea of the historical evolution of the civilized world's music and had not realized that all modern music owes everything to Bach.

Bach is the beginning and end of all music.