Quotes About Legacy

I participated in the transformation of my era. I did it with clothes, which is surely less important than music, architecture, painting but whatever it's worth I did it.

Jimi Hendrix was the most exciting guitarist I've ever heard.

I don't ever balk at being considered a Motown person, because Motown is the greatest musical event that ever happened in the history of music

We will miss George for his sense of love, his sense of music and his sense of laughter.

As I always said, if people wanted to know who James Brown is, all they have to do is listen to my music.

Country music and just music in general really lost a great friend today.

I would hope my legacy would be bringing smiles to faces. Happiness with my music.

Blues musicians don't retire. They drop.

The only thing that can kill me is death, that's the only thing that can ever stop me, is death, and even then my music will live forever.

I don't really need to be remembered. I hope the music's remembered.

I can't tell my future, so I'm going to tell my past.

The music of Bach is without doubt the most sacred gift to the world of art.

Most people die with their music still locked up inside them.

Classical music is an unbroken, living tradition that goes back over 1,000 years, and every one of those years has had something unique and powerful to say to us about what it's like to be alive.

Elvis Presley is all there is. There just ain't no more. Everything starts and ends with Elvis. He wrote the book. He is everything to do and not to do in the music business.

There was no match for Barry White. His music is just going to live forever. It's not limited to disco or soul or hip-hop or anything.

My Dad died during the flu epidemic in 1918 when I was 4 years old. He left a lot of classical recordings behind that I began listening to at an early age, so he must have been a music lover.

Erik is not truly dead. He lives on within the souls of those who choose to listen to the music of the night.

I always wanted to do music that influences and inspires each generation.

When I die, I want them to play The Black and Crazy Blues, I want to be cremated, put in a bag of pot and I want beautiful people to smoke me and hope they got something out of it.

A hundred years from now, people will listen to the music of the Beatles the same way we listen to Mozart.

That.s what Jazz music is all about.We started the Messengers because somebody had to mind the store for jazz.No America--no Jazz. It is the only culture that America has brought forth.

I'm not making any absurd comparisons between myself and Bach, but I aspire to that, that my music will have the legs to survive whatever context it finds itself in.

He never contributed a damn thing to music. (on Elvis Presley)