Quotes About Legacy

I'll perform all the way to the grave.

There will be a time when I won't be able to perform in the ring.

Dad really had little to do with the songs, except to perform them.

People tend to remember my performances, not me.

However, yes, especially as one gets older, you know, you really hope that your music will become more generally available, even though some of the performances might be riddled with faults.

Even people that know Johnny Cash's music really well and know that he was married don't really know that much about June Carter. So finding out about her really helped to inform my performance and to bring her to the front in a way that she has never been before.

No one else has performed in a play after they've died, and I want to be the first person to do it.

I've performed in Auburn Hills, at The Palace, so I haven't really been in downtown Detroit, but I've been able to be here, and I can really see, what the city was. Like, I can feel why Motown started here and how amazing it was.

'Malvolio' is the one show of mine that will not die. I've performed it more than 200 times all over the place.

My mother sang jazz and opera - she even performed at the Apollo on Amateur Night.

Dre is someone I've looked up to since 1985 when he came to my college and performed with The Wrecking Crew.

No one will ever fill Scott's shoes and I'm not trying to - he's a legend. But these songs deserve to be performed and people want to hear them. I'm just honored that the guys chose me to help them continue to build this band's legacy.

Frankly, the British always looked at this as a dumpy industrial area, but this was where Shakespeare lived and wrote and performed some of his greatest works.

Almost all the great players I admire performed well deep into their 30s and their 40s, almost all of them, and I don't think I'm any different.

'Calamity Jane' inspired me to be a performer. I still want to be her.

Very few people rise that high, to be a performer known as only one name. Caruso... Valentino... Hitchcock... Garbo.

I look up to Mick Jagger because he's an amazing performer and he's such an individual. I respect him and admire him eternally.

Martha Graham, along with George Balanchine, is one of the two commanding figures in 20th-century American dance. For those much younger than I am, her genius as a performer will have to be taken on faith - and on the always-suspect evidence of film. What will last, if things go well, is her genius as a choreographer, as a woman of the theater.

Yes, I mean, I can't match up to my mother's acting skills, actually both my parents. I just cannot match up to them. My mother was such a powerful and a respectable performer. They are actually overshadowing me and yes, I cannot be as good as them.

It's funny how you can say performing is in the blood, and if I'm considered a performer being an actor, then it's certainly in the blood.

I definitely always wanted to be a singer and a performer. I think I got it from my parents because my dad's a singer and my mom's a singer, so it kind of runs in the family and I just thought it was normal.

I think, describing Elvis for me would be a very generous king. He was the king of rock and roll, will always be. He's whats made it possible for everyone to be performers and to do the things they do now.

All of them - my father, mother, step-mother, and grandmother - were all wonderful actors and performers and they are an inspiration to me, both in their craft and in their humanity.

Canadians send us great hockey players. You also send us wonderful performers, from the beginning, with Mary Pickford.