Quotes About Impact

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

The only thing that can kill me is death, that's the only thing that can ever stop me, is death, and even then my music will live forever.

I don't really need to be remembered. I hope the music's remembered.

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

There's a little exhaust pipe leaking gasoline, and that gasoline is how good your music is, the gasoline is how you have relationships with people.

A lot of people think that the music was responsible for a lot of changes in the Sixties, but I think the music came out of it. The music wouldnt have happened without the social changes.

Elvis Presley is all there is. There just ain't no more. Everything starts and ends with Elvis. He wrote the book. He is everything to do and not to do in the music business.

Great classic music that I've been turned on to has not only inspired and influenced me, but it has had an effect on my songwriting.

I sometimes cry in the moments that are not necessarily dramatic or tragic in the films, often because of the music. I wonder whether it's the music that has that effect on you in this film.

I always wanted to do music that influences and inspires each generation.

Creativity and artistic endeavors have a mission that goes far beyond just making music for the sake of music.

A hundred years from now, people will listen to the music of the Beatles the same way we listen to Mozart.

He never contributed a damn thing to music. (on Elvis Presley)

Music without a message is just sound

When you think about it, Adolf Hitler was the first pop star.

Elvis was a big influence to my music, but Loretta Lynn was, as well.

The public is like a piano. You just have to know what keys to poke.

My goal is to connect with people emotionally. I take life's experiences and translate them into music — music that hopefully creates an impact on the listener.

I want everything, no matter what concept or genre, to feel real, because it is real. I want to keep making real music, I hope people remember me for that, that's a good thing to be remembered for.

Once the music gets in you, it doesn't leave you.

The first time I heard Bird play, it hit me right between the eyes.

Rock & roll is a type of sensuous music unfit for impressionable minds.

It would be nice to hear someone accidentally whistle something of mine, somewhere, just once.

Bad music can make you weak.