Quotes About Legacy

Celtic music will always be around, even if with the mainstream crowds it dies out.

If it doesn't start with you, it dies with you.

When a father of a daughter dies, you elevate them. And you sort of deify them.

I am horrified by the moral amnesia that develops when a dictator dies.

Mr. Wenger could have moved on to another club, I am sure, but instead chose to stay and build something over the long term. He lives and dies by his own ideas, and Arsenal is his baby.

There is no gainsaying that Lurch has put me where I am today. Lurch bought the house I live in. But what's going to happen to a guy like me when it's over? What happens when the show dies in maybe five years? Do I die too? No! I want to go on with other things.

I would like people to say that Merck continues to be a company that makes a difference in the world.

After my accident, the stuff that mattered was stuff that made a difference in the world, not the stuff that made money.

I'm trying to have everything that I put into the world be something that makes a difference in the way I want to make a difference.

What differences were there between Maradona and Platini?

I've had my differences with Massive Attack, but you can't deny what they've done. They've changed the face of music. They should make up an award for them even if there ain't one.

I want to create a different kind of legacy.

At the end of the day, if I can say that I had a career where I was able to play all different kinds of characters and I'm known as someone who is well-respected for my approach to the craft, that would be a beautiful life.

I did magic all my life from the time I was 12, and I like to tap into the magic from history.

I've made movies that nobody saw initially, and then, all the sudden, people over the years pick up on it. Like 'Spinal Tap' and 'Princess Bride.'

What I'm trying to do is bring young people into doing tap so that the art form will keep going.

I used to think I could save tap. But tap was here way before I was, and it's going to be here after I'm gone.

'Spinal Tap' is interesting because it created a genre of film and ended it - all in one motion. If you do a mockumentary, you are always going to be compared with that film, and you are never going to be as funny.

My dad died right after performing at the Friars' roast for Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz. I have that tape somewhere. There's still a lot of good jokes in there. I mean, that was 1958.

If I had any advice to give to anybody, it would be record your parents talking so that, when you're longing to hear that voice, you can play the tape. But for me, it's a little often. You don't always need to be reminded that he isn't here anymore.

I dug up my dad's old Fred Astaire tapes, and now I find him super-inspiring. He's, like, one of the best dancers.

He's only 4 years old, so I don't think he realized, you know, that I played so many years. Of course, we watch tapes here from the Stanley Cup years, but I don't think he realized how many years I played.

I had all these tapes in my closet that I had shot years ago with my friend Jean-Michel Basquiat. I was working on a film about him when he died, and then I just put everything away. It was too sad.

Santana is the reason I play guitar - I studied his style so much, I actually wore out the video tapes.