Quotes About Aging

You move on. You move back. On because you're always getting older, back because there's always a set of habits and routines to catch you and suck you back in when your guard is down.

I'll probably be 80 years old and still performing. Music is like fashion, it changes. But some things will always be the same.

As you get older, the questions come down to about two or three. How long? And what do I do with the time I've got left?

As you get older you realize how important your emotional response is to any kind of music.

I'm older than I was, and I'm still washed-up, and I haven't changed my music one iota. It's just much easier to do this when people are being nice to you.

I keep healthy and I'm always very active and always have been so. I don't really see any signs of aging yet. Music keeps you young.

As I've gotten older, I have gotten a lot better at finding the pleasures of making music despite the business of it.

I'm getting older every day, and I'm going to be making music until I drop dead.

Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, but beautiful old people are works of art.

Nature gives you the face you have at twenty; it is up to you to merit the face you have at fifty.

A beautiful lady is an accident of nature. A beautiful old lady is a work of art.

It was formerly a terrifying view to me that I should one day be an old woman. I now find that Nature has provided pleasures for every state.

Societies as well as people become afraid of change as they grow older. It's human nature. The young have adventures while the old sit at home and nurture their memories.

Harmonising your biological rhythms with the rhythms of nature minimises entropy and reverses aging.

Your art kind of changes as you get older, by nature of the fact that you're hopefully gaining wisdom and you're starting to watch things with a better overview.

Nature in denying us perennial youth has at least invited us to become unselfish and noble.

Nature's a tranquilizer as you get older.

It is the nature of a person as he/she grows older to protest against change, particularly changes for the better.

Always be nice to your children because they are the ones who will choose your rest home.

The years thunder by, The dreams of youth grow dim where they lie caked in dust on the shelves of patience. Before we know it, the tomb is sealed.

As I get older I find it more and more easy to watch a pot until it boils.

Gentlemen, you will permit me to put on my spectacles, for, I have grown not only gray, but almost blind in the service of my country. - March 15, 1783

When I was a young man, I was poor. In a war with other nations, I was in eighty-seven fights. There I received my name and was made Chief of my nation. But now I am old and am for peace.

New cells are born everyday and old cells die, but they have neither funerals nor birthdays.