Tina Turner Quotes

I think it's something to do with the structural quality of the songs. We weren't actually trying to make stuff that was cool, or of the moment, although a lot of it was. We were trying to make stuff that was good enough to stick around and lo and behold, it has.

The biggest thrill you can have is to tell people one of your songs, and have them be able to hum it.

We've always prided ourselves on making a record that we want to feel proud of, ones that are hopefully timeless so they can be around for a long time.

Great music, timeless music is hard to come by, but there are some that are like that.

I am so lucky that I have been part of and written songs that will always resonate no matter how old they get.

Songs like 'One Love' by Bob Marley - they stand the test of time - it doesn't matter - so anytime I write music, I try to write in tune with an emotion, and I hope there are more times like that for everyone.

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

Songs need to have the ability to change and to grow for sure. They take on lives of their own. Some songs just don't have that capacity. They're locked within a period of time. And as soon as you take them out of that period of time, they die very quickly.

All great music is contemporary. If it's still alive and kicking, then it's contemporary. If it fades away, it was a period piece. It had its moment, and that was it.

A great song will be great forever - it's timeless and classic in that way.

To me, ballads are special, because you can have a pop song that’ll be know for three weeks and then you’ll hear nothing else about it. Nobody else will record it and it’ll just be gone. But if you do a good ballad, it’ll be in the world forever.

And there are certain songs that are really timepieces and shouldn't be touched. But some of them are a celebration of good humour and sensibility and I think that's okay. I don't care about the past, I'm a musician with ambition.

The Beatles never get old.

One thing with Backstreet Boys, we never try to rush out an album. We always try to make quality music that can stand the test of time.

I don't want to make music that is hot now; I want to make music that is hot forever.

Sometimes memorable music doesn't necessarily have to be a hit.

My songs are classics.

I like to make songs that are gonna be here for a long time, not for five months that they play on the radio.

What kind of music keeps its relevance? That's why I purposely try and avoid any particularly current trends in electronic music. I do actively stay away from the most popular rhythms of the moment. In six weeks' time, those will sound out-of-date.

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.

When an audience takes to a song and it becomes older, in a way it changes it entirely. And then the journey just begins.

'Free Bird' is timeless, 'Sweet Home' is timeless. They're just timeless songs.

I've been very fortunate as a composer to be involved with projects that have really propelled my scores forward. I'm very proud of it.

'Astral Weeks' is a brilliant album, and songs like 'Moondance' are just beautiful lyrically.

The craziest thing is that the song ["My President"] is real but you can still hear it in the club.