Quotes About Legacy

One of my favorite rappers of all time, if not my favorite rapper of all time, is Nas.

I don't want to be 50 years old and rapping, man. I'm pretty sure nobody wants to do that.

There are certain things that I wish people knew - certain things that I feel I started and certain things that I'm responsible for. Sometimes you wish people knew where a certain style of rapping came from or who was the first one to say whatever.

I always knew that I would be some type of public figure, but I never knew that it would be rapping, 'cause my dad sang: I saw him deal with the ills of the music industry, just on the outside looking in.

I'm a bred musician - this is generational. For me to just limit myself to rapping is a discredit to my bloodline.

It is very rare that he makes a mistake, and I feel just privileged to have done what I have with him. There will never be another Valegro.

Well, for us, in history where goodness is a rare pearl, he who was good almost takes precedence over he who was great.

I believe to have been one of the rare drivers to have returned to Ferrari.

Michael was a rare breed. There's no question about that. He did things that a lot of players could never do, and still to this day players can't do those things, so the honors that he's had are definitely deserved.

Older people may have always existed throughout history, but they were rare.

In 1995, I proposed the Harvard Arts Medal. The idea was to celebrate the fact that, although it's rare, Harvard men and women do go into the creative arts. Over the years we've had major, major figures, like Jack Lemmon, John Updike, Yo-Yo Ma, and Bonnie Raitt.

There are not that many people who can say they have been on a show long enough to leave it. Usually, you don't have a choice. The show gets canceled. There are very few people who live in the rare air of being able to leave a show while it is still in production.

I know chances like 'Dangal' are rare. It's something that will be difficult to live down. But it's something I'll cherish for a lifetime.

When I speak to my dad and my wife, and friends, they say it's 10 years at West Ham, you're leading the team out every week, when you sit back and really think about it, it's very rare.

Children rarely want to know who their parents were before they were parents, and when age finally stirs their curiosity, there is no parent left to tell them.

Presidents often disappoint, but first ladies rarely do.

In the absence of full-fledged Congressional investigations, American policymakers rarely look back. They are bound by continuity and fealty across administrations and generations.

Absolutely, I don't believe in rules. As I tell my daughter when she is mischievous, 'Well-behaved women rarely make history.'

The pleasure of one's effect on other people still exists in age - what's called making a hit. But the hit is much rarer and made of different stuff.

Bands don't last. Bands don't last forever - it's a rarity when they do.

Quite often, people who build big businesses don't believe anyone else can run them, and you end up with an old rascal in their 70s and no one to take them on. I could name several - and I won't - who put themselves in that invidious position.

It's weird to think about being introduced as 'Hall of Fame members Rascal Flatts.'

I would say that I would do the same thing with any other members of the rascals that are still alive.

I don't know any guitar player, any of the real greats, who don't rate Joni Mitchell up there with the best of them.