Quotes About Legacy

Classical music is a wonderful 1200 year-old tradition that witnesses everything that it has meant and what it means right now to be human.

I love making music and all that, but at the end of the day I don't think that's what people are going to remember about a person.

You can't play anything on a horn that Louis Armstrong hasn't played

Music has been my outlet, my gift to all of the lovers in this world. Through it - my music, I know I will live forever.

I feel that I belong to the 19th century. Some composers' music is very topical. It almost says, 'This is about what I read in newspapers yesterday.' Not mine.

Though I'm not the first king of controversy, I am the worst thing since Elvis Presley. To do black music so selfishly, and use it to get myself wealthy.

Charlie Christians' contributions to the electric guitar are as big as Thomas Edisons' contributions to the world.

My husband John Lennon was a very special man. A man of humble origin, he brought light and hope to the whole world with his words and music.

Our mothers and grandmothers ... moving to music not yet written.

Johnny Cashs' face belongs on Mount Rushmore.

If New Orleans is allowed to die, a crucial part of the world's music heritage will disappear.

My dad has always been a big Ray Charles fan, and I've grown up listening to all kinds of music.

We're genuinely happy if some musicians of this younger generation are influenced by our music, as we were ourselves influenced 10 years ago by older musicians.

Don't die with your music still in you. Don't die with your purpose unfulfilled. Don't die feeling as if your life has been wrong. Don't let that happen to you.

The music itself, I suppose, is the thing that will survive in my memory, happily.

If you want me in the Hall of Fame put me in because of some contributions that I have made to country music.

I mean, if Beethoven had been killed in a plane crash at twenty-two, the history of music would have been very different. As would the history of aviation, of course.

Soul music is timeless.

My father loved poetry and music. But deep in himself he thought teaching the finest thing a person could do.

Twenty years from now, will we listen to Lady Gaga? No. She might think she is making a stand for the freaks and the weirdos. But they're not going to have any decent music to play, are they?

I got my interest in Lotte Lenya and the Brecht-Weill canon from my parents. And I love classical music - I got that from my parents. I love Cole Porter - that I got from my dad.

No matter what I do, my songs come out in a certain style, and if that sounds like Dead Kennedys, then there's probably a reason for it. Don't forget, I wrote most of those songs, music and lyrics.

Dancing, apart to music with a beat, is my legacy.

The blues and jazz will live forever... So will the Delta and the Big Easy.