Quotes About Timeless

There will never be a time when we shall not exist.

I'm like old shoes. I've never been hip. I think the reason I'm still here is that I was never enough in fashion that I had to be replaced by something new.

Dying will happen sometime. As you know, I plan for the ages, not just for this life.

A good song never gets old.

I write a song to be recorded. And to some extent to be performed, but definitely more to be recorded than performed, because the recording will last longer than a performance.

I'd like to be remembered as a premier singer of songs, not just a popular act of a given period.

Many pop songs seem to be more potent now than in their heyday.

When music is crashing around us, when you hear the same five songs on the radio that aren't really saying much, we can always go back to great music. Great music always lives on.

I mean, Beatles songs were two and a half minutes long, and they're fantastic.

Everyone is trying to make these huge songs; I just make things that I want to listen to. Music that I will be comfortable listening to 10 years from now, that's my only thing.

I want to create songs that will last across time.

I feel like I write songs for the future or something. Not in an arrogant way, but I feel like maybe my songs were, like, before their time or something.

I come from a songwriter background, so essentially with my music, I'm trying to make songs that will last a lifetime and although 'Fast Car' was a cover, it reflects what I'm trying to do.

I don't think the Playboy brand has changed much at all - it's always been sophisticated and aspirational.

I try to keep my appearance classic and sophisticated.

I have never gone out of fashion. And do you know why? Because I never sought it. When you don't seek it, it's always with you.

Age don't mean nothing. I'm an old soul.

I've always been a firm believer that soul music never dies. The artists we still listen to today, years after their music was first heard are mostly soul artists; Donny Hathaway, Marvin Gaye, Chaka Khan. We still sing along to all of them with our hearts.

Honestly, the way I make music, you know - it's like, I don't want to sound cocky or anything, but I try my best to make time with music that doesn't have an expiration date.

I love Katharine Hepburn. I love Liesl in 'The Sound of Music.' I love Julie Andrews. I love Audrey Hepburn.

I was listening to the first record the other day, and it sounds remarkably contemporary.

What I see in the book is an exquisite form of technology: one that doesn't require a power source and can be passed from hand to hand and lasts a lot longer than an electronic reader.

Coming from a country that's rapidly changing, I love the idea of a place like South Dakota where nothing has really changed.

The Infinite cannot be measured. The plan of Nature is so immense, but she has no plan, no scheme, but to go on and on forever. What is size, what is time, distance, to the Infinite? Nothing. The Infinite knows no time, no space, no great, no small, no beginning, no end.