Mayer Hawthorne Quotes

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

I don't want to make music that is hot now; I want to make music that is hot forever.

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.

Good music will always be recognized in the end.

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

A song is only as strong as its foundation, and when it comes so naturally in any setting, those are the songs that will hopefully outlive you, maybe even outlive the next generation of You.

If our music survives, which I have no doubt it will, then it will because it is good.

I wanted to make a record that people could put on year after year after year, and it would never feel dated.

There's a constantly applicable nature to soul music, whereas sometimes pop music can be a periodical.

I want to write music that will outlive me.

As far as the creative side of making great, great albums and really trying to go down in history? I don't see that happening lately, you know what I mean? You have a lot of guys is talented, but at the same time, timeless music is more important to me.

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.

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

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.

All good music, whatever its date, is ageless - as alive and significant today as it was when it was written.

Effortlessly, I feel like my records have longevity.

Songs remain. They last...A song can last long after the events and the people in it are dust and dreams and gone. That's the power of songs.

To me, there's two kinds of music these days. There's ephemeral music, and there's music that has lasting power and depth.

If a song was ever good, it's still good.

I am terrified at the thought that so much hideous and bad music will be put on records forever.

Fifty years from now, people will still be listening to Led Zeppelin. They won't even remember me.

If you look at the history of music, you have classical composers, church music, pop music, etc. Music that's existed for centuries. I think there are some songs that are close to immortal. They will last longer than we will in this lifetime.

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

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

It's a wonderful thing to be able to see your music going from generation to generation.