Quotes About Relevance

The one thing I do believe is, if you make the songs about the human aspects of things, you've got a much better chance of having the music transcend the times. If you make them very political and very topical, it's going to date very quickly.

To transcend and be yourself... I have no reason to tell you, and others, something that is not of interest to you.

There are certain songs that just stick around and do something that transcends whatever time they were written in. Through different eras, people are able to impart different meaning to the song, and they become part of some sort of consciousness.

I'm a huge Groucho fan. There were some great comic minds that would transfer into any generation, and Groucho is certainly one of them.

One question you ask as a writer or any kind of artist when you start making something is, 'Does this have reason to exist in the world?' And you're reassured when you get little confirmations that people are pleased it did exist - whether they buy a ticket, whether it gets good reviews, whether it transfers.

My goal is to help make tennis transition to what's coming next and to be able to continue to grow rather than falling down, because no new fans come to our sport.

It's been kind of a weird transition from ending 'The Bachelor' to starting 'Dancing with the Stars.'

A lot of times with artists from back in the day, they do a new album and they don't sell as much. People say they love them, and it doesn't always translate to new music.

Whatever is powerful to you can be translated into something which will matter to somebody that you will never know.

I wanted to know if the 'Iliad' in the original was as relevant and contemporary as it was in translation. I then started Latin. I had finally found something I enjoyed and was good at: dead languages!

Structure is more important than content in the transmission of information.

history after the war war 1 was over they celebrated. they said that's history. After that history repeated it self and now the story of war war 2 has begun.

There's absolutely nothing wrong with finding our own thoughts more interesting than a long story about someone's husband's niece's gum surgery. Introverts

O generations of men, how I count you as equal with those who live not at all!

The meaning of the words is necessary and not their extent.

Of what import are brief, nameless lives . . . to Galactus?

Although our inherent message must never change, our methods must.

The fate of a single man can be rich with significance, that of a few hundred less so, but the history of thousands and millions of men does not mean anything at all, in any adequate sense of the word.

But what good was this theoretical rubbish?

Maar alles wat niet te maken heeft met de problemen van de huidige tijd, blijft beneden onze strenge maatstaf voor wat wezenlijk is.

Alles existierte nur insofern, als es Bezug hatte auf Dich, alles in meiner Existenz hatte nur Sinn, wenn es mit Dir verbunden war.

Wit lasts no more than two centuries.

Nothing is so hideous as an obsolete fashion.

The past is never dead. It's not even past. —William Faulkner