Suzi Quatro Quotes

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.

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

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

The reward of great men is that, long after they have died, one is not quite sure that they are dead.

Once you have a certain amount of money, it ceases to be an issue. I'd rather put my cultural imprint on the fabric of life. After money, all you want is immortality.

Napolean is dead - but Beethoven lives.

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.

What’s written remains, though a writer is buried beneath the ground.

If you would not be forgotten, as soon as you are dead and rotten, either write things worth the reading, or do things worth the writing.

It sure is a nice feeling to know that people will remember you after you're gone, that you'll manage to be a little bit of history.

I want people talking about me when I'm gone.

I always felt that one needs to be remembered long after one has gone.

I want to be remembered.

I would just like to be remembered.

More important than a work of art itself is what it will sow. Art can die, a painting can disappear. What counts is the seed.

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.

To be an artist is not about fame; it's about art, which is this intangible thing that has got to have lots of integrity, whereas being famous doesn't really take any integrity. But I think you have to admit that you want to be famous, otherwise you can't be an artist. Art and fame together are like a desire to live forever.

Like all artists, I want to cheat death a little and contribute something to the next generation.

Fame - a few words upon a tombstone, and the truth of those not to be depended on.

I don't have any sentimental notion about how people are going to remember me.

To have a statue of you up 100 years from now at the Superdome, I think that's amazing.

Tom Bosley may have passed, but through that part and that character, a part of him will live on forever.

I hope people will like my novels after I'm dead. And I hope my children think about me in good ways, by and large.

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.