Quotes About Relevance

I won't ever play something just for the sake of playing it, why would I do that?

If we're still talking about the same thing 40 or 50 years later, then that means we're not doing anything about it.

I think the audience for Limp Bizkit is probably not going to be particularly interested in what we're doing. I don't think they'll find much that satisfies them in what we do.

What we are doing is satisfying the American public. That's our job. I always say we have to give most of the people what they want most of the time. That's what they expect from us.

I really feel that we need to scale back and get to what is important on so many levels.

Rankings don't always mean what they should. Sometimes the numbers - the butts you can put in seats mean more.

To have a sense of contemporary ownership of Shakespeare is the most important thing to his work.

My own fear, if I have one myself, is a fear of being obsolete. This is a world that changes very fast, and one of the main human desires is to belong to, to be part of, something. It's probably one of our greatest needs next to oxygen.

You've got Lil Uzi Vert - you do a song with him, you ain't doing nothing but gaining new fans. You gotta keep up with the time and the pace.

Information about the package is as important as the package itself.

I couldn't go on an '80s package show or anything like that. I have a lot more to give. If you go down that road completely I think you'll stay with a certain type of audience. Again I'm not knocking it. People go for the fun of the hits, it's what they've grown up with.

My work should speak, not being spotted on Page 3.

Political biography is in the doldrums. No one wants to read 800 pages or so of cradle-to-grave dead politics, especially if it's familiar stuff and has all been written about before.

Actually, we got paid because the name Fortinet is so close to Fortnite, so I'm fine with their name being close to ours.

I'm sure we don't read old paintings the way they were intended.

It's important that when kids are listening to my music they don't think of it as their parent's music.

Being made to feel like an irrelevant child was probably an asset. Benign negligence is not a bad parental attitude or at least a cross between a benevolent dictator and benign negligence - you should just let kids crack on with it.

Simple people can bring very good knowledge to Parliament because they know the ground.

Conscious of not being able to separate myself from my time, I have decided to become part of it.

If you look back at the great classics and the epics and myths, they were for everyone. Different people got different things from them, but everyone was invited to participate.

Logic, fact, morality, legality, ideology: All of it is irrelevant in understanding the Party of Trump. Republicans have made crystal clear that nothing matters to them other than partisanship.

Classics isn't about the ancient world. It's partly about the ancient world, but it's about our conversation. It's how we try to talk to antiquity.

When I composed a song on Bhagat Singh, it flopped. But my other songs about partying and all that are superhits!

Every artist will one day face the moment when he or she is doing what he or she does after the style has passed and the art-world heat-seeking machine has moved on.