Tony Bennett Quotes

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

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

I don't want people buying my records for this summer's hit. I want people buying them because they're interested in what Ministry will have to say in the future.

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

I don't know if One Direction will stand the test of time. I have a niece who goes crazy for them. But the only way to judge art is to wait and see if it becomes evergreen. This takes a bit of time. Adele is a very good musician and I'd like to sing with her. But, again, time will tell if her music will become evergreen.

I don't believe that a lot of the things I hear on the air today are going to be played for as long a time as Coleman Hawkins records or Brahms concertos.

I always take care to have interesting chord progressions, because you can have the best sound design in the club, and you'll kill it in the club, but in five years, kids will have better sound design. But if your music is good, you'll always be able to listen to it, even in 20 or 50 years.

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

Great music is great music. It doesn't matter what genre it belongs.

Great music is great music, period.

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.

Any idiot who knows five chords can bang a song together. But it's probably going to be rubbish.

I don't think rock 'n roll is necessarily a young man's game. I think Neil Young is just as rock'n'roll now as he was in his 20s. I'd like to think we can still be edgy and challenging.

If it's a good song, it doesn't really matter if it's trendy or not. It will hit.

I believe that music is about making quality things, making quality art, and no matter who you decide to work with, you and that person have to come up with something special, come up with something that is excellent material, so whoever hears it and reviews it will like it.

There are times when what's happening in rock is the best music in the world, and there are times when there is nothing worthwhile at all.

I was a 'Big Brother' fan. I thought they were better musicians than their detractors claimed, but more to the point, technical accomplishment was not something I cared about.

Music is neither old nor modern: it is either good or bad music, and the date at which it was written has no significance whatever.

To have a body of work is a blessing - when you have songs that have been around generation after generation that they call timeless music, you can work that for a long time.

In my mind, there's this one 'super genre,' which is the only genre that matters, and that's the super genre of good music.

I really think there are two genres of music: good music and bad music. And I'm just trying to be on the side of making good music.

The most important thing is to make quality music that will last.

You can't really take it for granted that people listen to your music. I want to write songs that are on par, at least in my mind, with the ones I've loved for my whole life and that will be around forever.

My friends and I have often discussed the plausibility of a connection between qualitatively bad music and quantifiably successful music, often citing the example of Candlebox and their paradoxical influence on culture.

If you write great songs with meaning and emotion, they will last for ever because songs are the key to everything.