Quotes About Legacy

I never dropped my surname.

It seems like people are just dropping off the Earth. I suppose that happens when you get older. It's part of life. No one's getting out of it.

Every time you hear an 808 drum machine beat on one of my songs, it comes from Freaknik.

My dad was a drummer for The Mamas & The Papas, and his mother was in the jazz world, so music has always been very much in my blood.

I don't think I've ever met a drummer who didn't tell me that my dad was an influence. He's a tough act to follow.

One of the reasons I needed to leave Dream Theater was because I didn't want to end my career as just the drummer in one band.

There are a lot more women drummers now than there used to be, and I'd like to think that I'm part of the reason.

My dad was a big dude.

Skynyrd just hasn't gotten its just due.

My father passed away due to Alzheimer's disease, and many things I do are nods to him.

I don't miss being in the dugout - I'll make that clear.

They will wrest 'dull words' from my cold dead hands.

I'll keep writing 'Dune' books as long as my mother's spirit continues to support the project.

I don't dunk anymore.

I think that the politicians who were beaten by Donald Trump and then endorsed him, that's something that they will carry and should carry, for the duration of their career.

It's tough when you're an artist because you get to go around the world and make a lot of friends, but guess what? One day, all these people that you love are going to die, from DJ Mehdi to DJ Dusk to J Dilla to Austin Peralta to DJ Rashad.

Dusty Rhodes really liked me, I bonded with him.

Dusty Rhodes was never Virgil Runnells, Dusty Rhodes was always Dusty Rhodes.

I think about dying. I've come to realize we all die alone in one way or another.

When I'm dying, I want to think I did what I felt was best for the words I was writing. This may mean, at any time, that I won't be publishable anymore.

Write as if you were dying.

I'm dying always.

People start to act very unusually when they find out that they're dying, that they don't have that many years left.

Obviously, death is ahead of me. I don't look forward to dying one little bit. But, you know, I simply don't worry about it because it's going to happen to me as it does to anybody.