Robert Klein Quotes

I want to be the bridge to the next generation.

When you do something in music and see it happen again in the next generation, you know you're on the right wave length.

I feel proud I was part of the old school and still around in the new school.

Life is a series of commas, not periods.

One does not substitute oneself for the past, one merely adds to it a new link.

America is not nearly done. We're only in the beginning. Who knows who we will be? Who knows... what color we will be? It is all something that, maybe, our descendants - if they survive that long - will see.

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

One must always maintain one's connection to the past and yet ceaselessly pull away from it.

For a time I didn't want to answer any questions about Queen. I'd like to be viewed as something alive and relevant, not some fossil.

You never begin a new life. It's a mistake to think that you end one part of your life and start another as if there's no continuity.

I completely understand the responsibility I have in continuing the sonic style that I have created.

I believe in the old, because it shows us where we come from - where our souls have risen from. And I believe in the new, because it gives us the opportunity to create who we are becoming.

Shostakovich was one of the great symphonists of all time, and maybe the last great symphonist.

I never want to make a complete, 180 reactional record. I wanted a connection to what I've done in the past but still move forward and evolve.

When she looked at him now, she couldn't help thinking that the man he had become bore so little resemblance to the boy he had been. His smile was the only piece of baggage he had carried with him from boyhood into manhood.

I never leave anything behind. It's like a history, a chain, a line of life, you just have to move and make new steps, and keep it evolving - but my soul is my soul.

This, milord, is my family's axe. We have owned it for almost nine hundred years, see. Of course, sometimes it needed a new blade. And sometimes it has required a new handle, new designs on the metalwork, a little refreshing of the ornamentation . . . but is this not the nine hundred-year-old axe of my family? And because it has changed gently over time, it is still a pretty good axe, y'know. Pretty good.

We never leave our roots. We just grow new branches.

Whenever anything changes and quits its proper limits, this change is at once the death of that which was before.

Thank you Prince for all of your inspiration and sharing your increadible talents with the world. You will be incredibly missed.

Maybe I'm an emblem of an old era, and I have to move on.

Even if it's being a Beatle for the rest of my life, it's still only a temporary thing.

Heir follows heir, as wave succeeds to wave.

That's what just hit me: How you really can't have everything. You have to give up the old to get the new. You can't be the child and the mom at the same time. You can't be your young self and your old self at the same time. You can't know what you know now and feel the way you did then. You can't, you can't, you can't.