Quotes About Relevance

It's not ideological to ask someone to stick to the question presented.

I'm not looking to stick my nose into an area where I'm not needed.

The good books stick around for a reason. There is a reason that we come back to them and they are so rewarding.

Whether the medium is ready for consumers is better judged by those consumers. I sometimes read online - but not often. The stigma is attached to pay scales. Much online publication is no pay or small pay.

I feel proud I was part of the old school and still around in the new school.

If a song was ever good, it's still good.

For adults to enjoy something, they need to have intellectual stimulation, something that's related to real life.

I will not do a role that I don't think I can do, that I'm not interested in, where there's no humanity, that doesn't have any kind of handle for me at all because I know I'll just stink the joint up.

Memorials become relics if they do not stir our modern conscience.

When you make music, and even if it's commercially successful, it doesn't mean that it's going to hold up. It takes time to sort of take stock of what you've done and whether it's got legs and whether it's going to really have a place.

I've not thought about the Stone Roses since we quit. How many LPs do I have to make to stop people talking about it?

Everybody knows who Gandhi is. Who knows Jesse Stone?

The Stones don't really need to do it for money, so they must get some kind of pleasure out of it. They're not like a group that's disbanded and gone away and made a comeback. They've always been there.

I feel like my peers now are artists like Madonna and the Stones, Michael Jackson and Prince. These are people who were able to take their careers beyond the normal here-today-gone-tomorrow life span.

These days, the Rolling Stones still have an edge, but that fangs-out ferocity has mellowed considerably.

If the Rolling Stones are playing a concert across town, that's not my audience anyways. But I do find that there's a lot of people coming back around to see me again.

If you're the Rolling Stones, you can sing 'Start Me Up' for 35 years, and people still cheer.

You can't always count on the devices, attitudes, and conceits that stood you in good stead in 1972 or 1973, or 1978-79, to still have the same impact all these years later.

I made songs in the late '90s and the early new millennium that didn't succeed very well, but songs that I made in the late '80s, early '90s, they stood the test of time. I respect those songs for keeping me relevant.

The artists in country music who stopped having hits are the ones who were led into something that wasn't them.

Journalism, spooked by rumors of its own obsolescence, has stopped believing in itself. Groans of doom alternate with panicked happy talk.

Online hierarchies are inherently dynamic. The moment someone stops adding value to the community, his influence starts to wane.

People say that I must get bothered when someone stops me for an autograph or a photo. I'll get bothered when no one asks me. Being asked means people haven't forgotten the time I played.

When people are running up to me in the grocery store screaming, 'Oh my God! Oh my God!' that's when I know I'm swervin'. As long as people are recognizing you and you matter to them, then you're doing something right.