Elvis Costello Quotes

When I die, the world is going to talk about me. They will never forget me and I will never have any regrets. If nothing else, the world will know I was here. I think that everyone should make their mark wherever they are. They will talk about you way after you're gone. Make your mark. Live your life.

Immortality is a by-product of good work.

Immortality is to live your life doing good things, and leaving your mark behind.

I don't give a toss about being remembered after my death.

Authors want their names down in history; I want to keep the smoke coming out of the chimney.

I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money.

Of all the delusions that existed, Posthumous Fame was the greatest.

It would be nice if I was remembered at all. I don't really care about being remembered. I just want to enjoy my life today and do my best while I'm here. I'm not that ambitious, other than to have a good life now.

I don't expect to live forever, nor do I repine over that, but I am weak enough to want to be remembered forever. - Yet how few of those who have lived, even of those who have accomplished far more than I have, linger on in world memory for even a single century after death

I certainly hope 'Dragon' can leave some legacy behind.

One lives in the hope of becoming a memory.

If something comes to life in others because of you, then you have made an approach to immortality.

The only 'afterlife' is what other people remember of you.

My buildings will be my legacy... they will speak for me long after I'm gone.

You can keep the things of bronze and stone and give me one man to remember me just once a year.

… the whole earth is the sepulcher of famous men; and their story is not graven only on stone over their native earth, but lives on far away, without visible symbol, woven into the stuff of other men's lives.

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.

It doesn't worry me how I'm remembered.

I want my name to be remembered for 1,000 years. That way, I will never be forgotten when I'm done inside the ring.

When I'm dead are they going to remember me ? I don't really think about it, it's up to them. When I'm dead, who cares ? I don't.

What you leave behind is the people you loved. You leave yourself in them.

From famous artists to building contractors, we all want to leave our signature. Our lasting effect. Your life after death. We all want to explain ourselves. Nobody wants to be forgotten.

Posthumous fame is a plant of tardy growth, for our body must be the seed of it; or we may liken it to a torch, which nothing but the last spark of life can light up; or we may compare it to the trumpet of the archangel, for it is blown over the dead; but unlike that awful blast, it is of earth, not of heaven, and can neither rouse nor raise us.

When people are still getting pleasure from something that you did 30 years ago, it makes you feel good. I always say it makes an old man happy.

A person's shadow stood for his legacy, his impact on the world. Some people cast hardly any shadow at all. Some cast long, deep shadows that endured for centuries.