Paul Weller Quotes

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.

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!

I don't really need to be remembered. I hope the music's remembered.

The thought that all experience will be lost at the moment of my death makes me feel pain and fear... What a waste, decades spent building up experience, only to throw it all away... We remedy this sadness by working. For example, by writing, painting, or building cities.

I know my music probably isn't going to matter to the public after I die, but that doesn't mean I don't have something to offer.

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.

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

At some point of time, Imman won't be in this world. But my biggest asset would be if my biggest hater had at least 100 songs that I composed in his playlist. That's how I know my work will continue to live.

The things that I leave creatively are going to stay here long past me. That's the reason why the album is called '4Eva Is a Mighty Long Time.'

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.

Years from now, after I'm gone, someone will listen to what I've done and know I was here. They may not know or care who I was, but they'll hear my guitars speaking for me.

I feel like I have at least begun to make a contribution, but my most significant concern has to do with whether my actual art will be preserved for future generations or be erased.

'A collected poems' is either a gravestone or a testimonial to survival.

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

I'm hoping to make a new thing for the world that remains in the mind like a new species of living thing.

Live so that when the final summons comes you will leave something more behind you than an epitaph on a tombstone or an obituary in a newspaper.

I would rather be remembered by a song than by a victory.

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

To look back and know that I have had a pivotal role in the development of comics is something I'm very proud of, although it's not something I think about unless someone brings it up.

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

I wasn't thinking of the longevity of any of my songs, but I am extremely pleased with the lasting effect.

It's very flattering to feel like you actually helped create a sub-genre.

I really want to leave something behind that means something when I'm no longer here.

When I die, just keep playing the records.

Sooner or later I'm going to die, but I'm not going to retire.