Quotes About Legacy

The music I have created, along with the other Beach Boys, has taken me all over the world. For these past 50 years, I guess you could say, 'I get around.'

I'll always be a Chicago Bear no matter where I end up or where I retire, whatever happens.

Anytime you can beat a player that's going to go down as one of the best of all time, that's a good win.

I like beating old standardbearers of the N.F.L.

I'm bigger than the Beatles!

The Beatles will exist without us.

There's no outdoing The Beatles.

The Beatles will go on and on.

Growing up, I put a lot of pressure on myself. I felt with The Beatles legacy that there was pressure on me to do music, and while I always loved music and it was always around me at home, I thought about doing other things.

My favorite album would have to be something from The Beatles.

As a Liverpool boy, it is impossible not to think of the Beatles' question, 'Will you still need me when I'm 64?'

The Beatles did everything first, and they did it the best.

I'm most proud that I thought of Beats at 55.

If you leave this world with a full heart, then that is a beautiful life. And that's what I want.

I had a beautiful life as a basketball player.

The Bee Gees no longer exist.

My elder son and his wife keep bees, and my younger son has bees, too.

I don't get so much inspiration from other musicians. Especially alive musicians. Late musicians are good - Bach, Beethoven - yes, good.

If the house is to be set in order, one cannot begin with the present; he must begin with the past.

Martyrdom does not end something, it only a beginning.

As I get older I find myself thinking it all begins with Shakespeare.

You're shadowed by your own dream, especially as you get older, of trying to create something that will last in poetry. And so, you're working on its behalf.

You are what you leave behind.

This world is too hard for me to leave my kids, without me supervising and being there for them.