Quotes About Relevance

A lot of my movies have come to be thought about only years after the fact, and I'm sad about that but also happy about it in a way, as it's given them longevity.

I'm afraid I'll be a book that no one reads. Music that no one listens to anymore. I'm afraid I'll be abandoned like a movie playing in an empty theater.

The death of classical music is perhaps its oldest continuing tradition.

I participated in the transformation of my era. I did it with clothes, which is surely less important than music, architecture, painting but whatever it's worth I did it.

I never thought Jazz was meant to be a museum piece like other dead things once considered artistic.

Just because it happened to you, doesn't mean it's interesting.

Strategies are great, business models are great, but the reality is your music has to mean something to people.

The wireless music box has no imaginable commercial value. Who would pay for a message sent to nobody in particular?

I look at music now as just something to keep you relevant.

Old music used to mean something. There is none of that today.

It's hard to know if what you do is actually working for anyone else or not. There's so much music out there. Why would someone ever listen to what I do?

Why not invest in the future of music, instead of building fortresses to preserve its past?

I've seen and learned enough to keep my music fresh and spread out.

Opera in English is, in the main, just about as sensible as baseball in Italian.

All good music, whatever its date, is ageless - as alive and significant today as it was when it was written.

But why is it that in music, anything more than 5 years old - apart from a few hits - is never played on radio to the young public?

Twenty years from now, will we listen to Lady Gaga? No. She might think she is making a stand for the freaks and the weirdos. But they're not going to have any decent music to play, are they?

Today if something is not worth saying, people sing it.

Hip hop is the new rock n' roll, you know what I mean? And anybody who doesn't think that is just sort of living in the past. It's all just American music, really, when you get right down to it.

It doesn't mean that much to me to mean that much to you.

[Kids today] think "Grease" is just one long music video. So they watch it over and over again the way we, when we were kids, we listened to albums.

I think the music is relevant and if people are into the music, they're going to be into it regardless of when it comes from.

I just want my music to measure up to. Part of it's just thinking about my place in history and how this music is going to be perceived, if it's listened to 30, 40 years from now.

The whole thing about rock music, pop music, is it's really for kids.