Raekwon Quotes

I try to make sure that I make music that can stand the test of time.

The most important thing is to make quality music that will last.

I just want to make a classic. Classic is the standard. I'm just trying to make music that will last a lifetime.

It's really about making the best music you can make. It's really about working hard.

The best music of any era lasts well, I think.

I have tried, in all the ways I can, to make timeless music.

I want to make music that stands the test of time.

People often called us perfectionists, but we were not looking for perfection. We were looking for some kind of magic in the music.

Pop changes week to week, month to month. But great music is like literature.

I want to create songs that will last across time.

I always wanted to be involved with music that would stand the test of time, being on one of those definitive things that you have to have listened to at some point.

The Beatles will go on and on.

So don't get me wrong, I love my songs, and I still love hearing them. That's history, baby.

But that is a valid, continuing service that that music - which is, in some cases, 80 or 90 years old - is rendering. And proving its own timelessness.

Music is timeless, so I want to give people shows they'll never forget so that I can do this forever.

I believe that music is about making quality things, making quality art, and no matter who you decide to work with, you and that person have to come up with something special, come up with something that is excellent material, so whoever hears it and reviews it will like it.

Everywhere in the world, music enhances a hall, with one exception: Carnegie Hall enhances the music.

We are so indebted to our ancestors, musically speaking, that they have left us 400 years of music.

Surely every band wants to be a pivotal point in history.

I want to make sure that I make music that lasts. I've been experimenting. I've been writing.

My goal every time I make a record is just to make the funkiest, the best music I could possibly make, both lyrically, and music-wise.

Just the type of music that was around at the same time as I was writing. Some of it was wicked, definitely. But there was just one direction which I thought could be pushed that no one was pushing.

I figured as long as the music stayed hot and important and good, that there would always be a reason for 'Soul Train.'

In New York, I'm around a lot of the reasons I started playing music in the first place. I live right behind Matt Umanov Guitars. I live on the street that Suze Rotolo and Bob Dylan were walking down on the album cover. I recognize the history.

I had to make different kinds of music for everybody but still keep it classic T-Pain at the same time.