Colin Hay Quotes

Elvis' songs will always be there, and I hope mine will be after I'm gone.

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.

That's why 60,000 people go ape when the Stones play 'Satisfaction.' The songs are part of their legacy, and you fall back in love with them over the years.

If you write great songs with meaning and emotion, they will last for ever because songs are the key to everything. Songs will outlast the artist and they will go on for ever if they are good.

We're a staple in the American music culture. Like us or not, we're here to stay.

The Beatles will go on and on.

I love the fact that 35 years later, I still hear my songs on the radio.

I'd like to be remembered as a premier singer of songs, not just a popular act of a given period.

It just feels good to know the work I did, people like it and love it - and continue to like and love it. It makes me feel real good that, after 20 years, 'Regulate' is still in heavy rotation all over the United States and all over the world.

You look back at people like Elvis and The Beatles and still get their music because it's timeless. That's what I want.

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

We told you Wu-Tang was forever, and some people forgot that. It's not some fad.

I think it's just that Skynyrd songs are timeless.

Immortality is a by-product of good work.

Once you've established yourself with hits that become part of people's lives, then they pretty much always want to see you.

It's nearly redundant to enumerate the reasons The Beatles are important. There are probably different reasons why The Beatles are important to a musician like myself and to the millions of Beatles fans who just enjoy listening to the music.

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.

The one hit song that I have tremendous gratitude for is Boots, because it has a life of its own. It's like being identified with a brand name.

But, in the end, even a song that's as politically bland as Blowin in the Wind, you probably wouldn't get up and sing that now, whereas some of Bob Dylan's love songs that were contemporary with that, like say Girl from the North Country, you can still get up an play now.

I want to make music that stands the test of time.

I wasn't thinking of the longevity of any of my songs, but I am extremely pleased with the lasting effect.

I don't think anybody comes close to The Beatles, including Oasis.

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

We're trying to have the band create something beautiful that hopefully one day, 20 years from now, can be picked up by a kid and hopefully have the same effect that Neil Young had on me, or Led Zeppelin or Black Sabbath.

People in England were coming up to me, saying, My mother and father turned me on to your music. This happened to me 20 years ago. When I was 40 they were saying that.