Quotes About Legacy

He's a world-famous name to people who care about his music, but there are many people who have never heard of George Gershwin and those numbers increase.

I just want to make a classic. Classic is the standard. I'm just trying to make music that will last a lifetime.

I owe Elvis my career, and the entire music business owes him it's lifeline.

Charlie Parker lifted jazz music off the dance floor and into the stratosphere!

I saw satan laughing with delight The day the music died.

All of these years that I have been singing, no one has done a documentary about my music as far as I'm concerned.

Every generation thinks their music is the ultimate. But there's great stuff from every generation.

From politics and business to music and food to culture, African-Americans have helped to shape our state's colourful past and its future.

I get a wave of pride in America when I look back at what we've accomplished in the field of music.

With my singing I can make, a refuge for my spirit's sake; a house of shining words, to be my fragile immortality.

A big part of the Motown formula was, they took music and turned it into this sort of automotive assembly line. They were cranking out 10 songs a day in that studio, or more.

I grew up in a Hollywood family with money, so money is not the reason I make music. I'm as Hollywood as it gets. Not internally but externally - that's my bloodline.

I'm getting older every day, and I'm going to be making music until I drop dead.

The muse of music isn't just from Greek mythology, but living in people like the Beatles, Chuck Berry, Anita Baker, Aretha Franklin.

Since music has never had a Rembrandt, we have remained nothing more than musicians.

My goal was always to be involved in music that would outlive me. And maybe that's actually happening.

I'm so blessed that I can still be here to bring the music and have new generations of fans. My Pops would be so proud.

Smokey Robinson is one of my heroes as a singer and songwriter, a major influence on my own music from the very start.

I love Black Sabbath. They made an amazing contribution to music today. Almost every band that made it big in the Nineties owed a debt to them.

Back in those days, all us skinny white British kids were trying to look cool and sound black. And there was Hendrix, the ultimate in black cool. Everything he did was natural and perfect.

The Medicine Man, taking his music with him, is passing quietly into the Great Silence, where the old songs were "Received in Dreams" by "inner-plane communication."

It's wonderful to look back and think you were part of a force that shaped modern music and influenced the public in so many ways. However, that's all in the past.

There's the historical part of The Beach Boys' music; it's pretty incredible, pretty vast and pretty varied too.

Richard Strauss--Old Home Week in Gomorrah