Nick Mason Quotes

The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins?

Like everyone else, I am going to die. But the words - the words live on for as long as there are readers to see them, audiences to hear them. It is immortality by proxy. It is not really a bad deal, all things considered.

Any way, death is so final, isn't it? "Is it?" asked Richard. "Sometimes," said the marquis de Carabas. And they went down.

Death will destroy my body, but my creatures will keep on living ever after, in the years to come.

Art is longer than life.

I don't want to achieve immortality by being inducted into the Hall of Fame. I want to achieve immortality by not dying.

I'm not sure I've learned anything new about life; but I've had to think harder about death and what comes after for other people.

Since we have had a history, men have pursued an ideal of immortality.

I just don't get death at all. Yes, it's there. But I don't get it.

Know one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good.

Integration will not bring a man back from the grave.

A man has only one way of being immortal on earth: he has to forget he is a mortal.

The only 'afterlife' is what other people remember of you.

Each life makes its own immitation of immortality.

Your next SMS will probably be around longer, and remain more legible, than your tombstone. For, unlike your tombstone or even your mortal coil, your texts may be worth something.

Biography lends to death a new terror.

All the people with whom I was very close at one point in my life - Stockhausen, Berio, Ligeti, Nono, Bernd Alois Zimmermann - they are all gone.

How long halt ye between two opinions?

Lies here food for the worms yet the work shall not be lost.

It's not lost on me that everyone dies, but some people have a kind of immortality about them, and you can't imagine that they will ever be gone.

I always think that in some way, art is the best tool we have to prepare for death. It's like a sculpture that you can interpret differently every time you look at it.

Ultimately, what I want is for my songs to outlive me: I want my songs to keep being played even after I'm gone.

I shall not altogether die.

Once you're alive, you can't ever be dead.

We find it difficult to choose our direction because it does not yet exist distinctly in our idea.