Daryl Hall Quotes

… the whole earth is the sepulcher of famous men; and their story is not graven only on stone over their native earth, but lives on far away, without visible symbol, woven into the stuff of other men's lives.

Art is longer than life.

I want to create a body of work that is entertaining and speaks to people for a long time. Longer than my life span.

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.

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.

It is very difficult to capture over the centuries, the charisma of an individual.

Whatever happens in my life from now on, I know the day I finally die - the final act of my script - people will always make references to the work I've done with Almodovar.

Men die but an idea does not.

I just hope that some of the movies I'm in are still welcome years from now.

I certainly hope 'Dragon' can leave some legacy behind.

No man is truly great who is great only in his lifetime. The test of greatness is the page of history.

If something comes to life in others because of you, then you have made an approach to immortality.

We all die. The goal isn't to live forever, the goal is to create something that will.

If a man can bridge the gap between life and death, if he can live on after he's dead, then maybe he was a great man.

The test of greatness is the page of history.

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

I just hope that my films will survive me.

I think about all the people who have created something that lives after them - works of art, plays, music, films, literature, poetry that will be read, seen, performed, and heard for the rest of time. If I could do something that lives after me, then I think I will have had a life well led.

Will history remember us, I wonder? I do hope so - to imagine that one might do something, touch an event somehow, & thereby transcend the bounds of a single human lifetime!

Immortality is a by-product of good work.

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!

Every man of genius is considerably helped by being dead.

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

If there is any one truth from the legacy of the Cayce readings, it would be that there is a spiritual dimension to humans, something beyond time and space.

I want to write music that will outlive me.