Martina McBride Quotes

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

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

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

Effortlessly, I feel like my records have longevity.

You look back at people like Elvis and The Beatles and still get their music because it's timeless. That's what I want.

A good song never gets old.

The one thing I do believe is, if you make the songs about the human aspects of things, you've got a much better chance of having the music transcend the times. If you make them very political and very topical, it's going to date very quickly.

Songs don't wear out. Good songs are good now. If they were a comfort during those hard times in the past, they'll be a comfort in today's age.

I love things that age well - things that don't date, that stand the test of time and that become living examples of the absolute best.

I want to write music that will outlive me.

A lot has been written and said about why he was so great, but I think the best way to appreciate his greatness is just to go back and play some of the old records. Time has a way of being very unkind to old records, but Elvis' keep getting better and better.

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

I think that's what really a substantial work is, it's forever. It's the truth now and it was the truth then, and it will be the truth tomorrow.

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.

My work is not a piece of writing designed to meet the taste of an immediate public, but was done to last for ever.

I think that every songwriter would give their right arm to come up with a standard that is going to be played long after they're dead.

Honestly, the way I make music, you know - it's like, I don't want to sound cocky or anything, but I try my best to make time with music that doesn't have an expiration date.

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

I like to make songs that are gonna be here for a long time, not for five months that they play on the radio.

All the buzz can be very much here today and gone tomorrow, but my focus is creating music that will last forever.

We're just not going anywhere. Our songs are here to stay.

I want to leave an album behind that is classic, that people in 50 years will refer to and pass on to their children. An album that you never bored of.

Taste is such a changing thing. Every age our tastes change. But the things that really last aren't necessarily the best or the worst or the most loved things, but they're the things that make the biggest impression.

Our band Stereophonics never wanted to release a couple records and be the biggest band in the world for 10 minutes. We always wanted to stand the test of time, and make great music that people would want to listen to and that music lasts. We'd looked up to artists and bands that had big back catalogues.

I look for gravitas and substance that can outlast the theatrical experience.