Geoff Downes Quotes

There is but one way left to save a classic; to give up revering him and use him for our own salvation.

Hold fast to life and youth.

When an animal dies, it gives you the chance to love another animal. That's an insightful and profound way to look at it.

Welcome, wild harbinger of spring! To this small nook of earth; Feeling and fancy fondly cling, Round thoughts which owe their birth, To thee, and to the humble spot, Where chance has fixed thy lowly lot.

It would be nice to garner new fans and make it a success - and success is relevant, we already know all that.

Tradition means taking account of a wonderful history but remembering that everybody today looks to the future.

Sometimes you have to stop to think, regroup and regather yourself and realize how lucky you are to still be living and to still be breathing and still be able to even have a chance.

To be on this set today, I feel very blessed for the second chance and for the opportunity, my record company believing in me and everybody here just showing me so much love and support.

We had a huge audience, we sold truckloads of albums. If we do something that's cool, people will listen to it. If we don't, we would be selling people short.

I knew 'Bad Girls' attracts a younger audience, and it's vital to get oneself known to that audience because, unless they watch me in re-runs on 'U.K. Gold,' they won't know me from a hole in the ground.

There is no one that we can afford to throw away.

Thank you, dear God, for this good life and forgive us if we do not love it enough. Thank you for the rain. And for the chance to wake up in three hours and go fishing: I thank you for that now, because I won't feel so thankful then.

Classics stay alive because a great actor or a great director wants to do them.

Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right.

It's my luck that I was born a bit of an old soul, and it's served me well.

'Grateful' is a small word to express my gratitude, as God has blessed me with so many opportunities to restart my life.

You just gotta use the sunset as a reset button and start over in the morning with every chance you get to open your eyes.

I view every day just as an opportunity.

You can embrace nostalgia and history and tradition at the same time - it has to progress or it can't survive.

Marketers sometimes get caught in this lie that you must talk to people only in the voice that they recognize.

I firmly believe that without the fans, I wouldn't be where I am. I'm truly fortunate to be relevant for a very long time, and it's because of them wanting to see more of me.

I've outlived my parents, and I've had some wonderful second chances in life. I feel remarkably uncheated.

The thing that made me happy is you live to see the next day and you get an opportunity to do it again.

Snoop Dogg has always held me up. He's always held me above the fray, and that keeps me relevant. Wherever he goes, he takes my name with him when he does interviews. He's talking about me. He keeps me alive, and that feeds my spirit.

When God gives you a second chance, it's not something you take for granted.