Alfred, Lord Tennyson Quotes

When I'm dead, I wanna leave a body of work, like authors or great painters do. I don't wanna get ideas above my station, but why shouldn't this be comparable? Pop music was supposed to be a flash in the pan, but here we are 50 years later, and it means something to us, and it always will do. It's incredibly important.

Films and gramophone records, music, books and buildings show clearly how vigorously a man's life and work go on after his 'death,' whether we feel it or not, whether we are aware of the individual names or not. There is no such thing as death according to our view!

If somebody wants to sing my songs after I'm gone, nobody will be happier than my dead body.

I know my music probably isn't going to matter to the public after I die, but that doesn't mean I don't have something to offer.

Audiences aren't going to get rid of me. One thing I can say, with absolute certainty, is that my shows will still be performed when I'm dead, buried and forgotten. They're going to absolutely outlive me, which is a wonderful thing to think about.

If I die and I gotta couple Grammys on me, more than a couple hits on me, I got some plaques and I got billboards still up and I done touched a lot of people's souls and I'm viral, once that happen then you can judge all you want.

I would like to live forever in people's hearts and minds; that would be fun. I'll leave the world my art.

I think an artist's true worth comes through an inter-generational thing - when you go beyond your own time, and start influencing people in a greater way than just what surrounds you.

I would rather be remembered by a song than by a victory.

Let no one weep for me, or celebrate my funeral with mourning; for I still live, as I pass to and fro through the mouths of men.

Celebrity despicability is a precious thing.

I want to be so famous that drag queens will dress like me in parades when I'm dead.

Persons famous in the arts partake of the immortality of princes, and are upon a footing with them.

After I die, I'll be forgotten.

Napolean is dead - but Beethoven lives.

When I'm dead, I wanna leave a body of work, like authors or great painters do.

In his lifetime Lincoln was maligned and traduced, but detraction during a man's lifetime affords no test of his life's value nor offers any forecast of history's verdict. It would almost seem as if the glory of immortality were anticipated in the life of the great by detraction and denial whilst they yet lived.

Great men have this in common with the Divinity that they never die entirely. Their spirit survives them.

Our music will continue to have an impact in people's lives long after we finally call it quits.

Elvis' songs will always be there, and I hope mine will be after I'm gone.

I don't care much whether people remember me or not. If people remember, well and good. If they don't remember, it's alright - I'm dead anyway.

That, for me, is the only real legacy: the idea that one has left a lingering trace in people's memories. In the end, that's all a director can hope to do.

I expect my immortality will last about six seconds after my funeral.

When I'm dead, gone or whatever, people will always remember my name and the music I did during my time.

Because I express myself through the music, I want to be responsible in that expression and how it carries on well after I'm here. But that's just me.