Quotes About Legacy

I think that often in the United States we're very blind to the ways that history lives in the present.

Your career goes fast, just a blink of an eye and you're an ex-baseball player, longer than you are a baseball player. I try not to think about it too much, but it seems like it does go fast.

It's good to know where you come from. It makes you what you are today. It's DNA, it's in your blood.

I'm very proud of my Scottish blood.

The older I get, as well, bloody hell - time's running out. I just feel, jeez, there's so much to do. I'm not going to try to change the planet but make changes just in a small way.

After all, didn't I blow a magnificent career?

What I really dream of is that somebody would blow everything I've done out of the water in a beautiful way, which would clear the way for something better to come along.

You will find my last words in the blue folder.

Mandela once phoned me out of the blue while he was still president, and at first he played with me a bit.

Black people created rock music, it's a fact. Black people created bluegrass and rock and roll way before Elvis Presley and The Beatles.

When the slaves left Africa, they left us this music. They left us blues.

Blues players are around for 50 years, and that's just fine.

There's always talk about the blues dying out, but it won't.

I was the first Blunt ever elected to anything.

I don't know how you can go your whole life and not listen once to Bob Marley - what's the point?

I would love to work with Eminem, Dr. Dre. I wish I could have been in the studio with Bob Marley.

I think there's always been interest in Bob Marley.

Where are the John Lennons, the Bob Marleys, the Bob Dylans? Where have they gone?

There are a lot of great musicians in the world, but there is only, and will only ever be, one Bob Marley.

Bob asked his lawyer what would happen if he didn't make a will and she said: 'Your wife and children will be okay.' Which was good enough for him.

I'm not Bob; there will never be another Bob Marley; nobody can compete, including myself.

I'll never be Bob Dylan. He's the master.

And I don't expect anyone can bring about a revolution in the way that Bob Dylan did - and really didn't - in the 1960s.

Bob Dylan - I will listen to any of his songs over and over.