Genndy Tartakovsky Quotes

There's a constantly applicable nature to soul music, whereas sometimes pop music can be a periodical.

I love things that age well - things that don't date, that stand the test of time and that become living examples of the absolute best.

The work that lasts over time is the work which still speaks to us when all contemporary interest in that work is extinct.

Being timeless means you can listen to something when you're feeling a certain way, and it still has that same power as it did when you listened to the record for the first time. Timeless is abnormal. It sticks out. It can't be recreated.

What makes a classic is difficult to define. It's entirely subjective, of course. And the term is employed far too promiscuously.

A lot of things people see as innovative are faddish and fleeting, and I'm simply telling you, staying power like broadcasting has is more important in the end than the latest app you can download.

A lot of my movies have come to be thought about only years after the fact, and I'm sad about that but also happy about it in a way, as it's given them longevity.

You never know how things will last, if they will last, and how people will use them in the future. It was a fun movie for young people at the time in the 80s; but it struck a cord with people and it has lasted so I'm very proud of being a part of that.

A great song is one that is around even when I'm not.

I think things can have more than one meaning and still connect with people. There's a lot of meaning to the title 'Music For People' and they're all true and they're all accurate.

Never forget that what becomes timeless was once truly new.

I just hope that some of the movies I'm in are still welcome years from now.

I try to make sure that I make music that can stand the test of time.

Soul music is about longevity and reaching and touching people on a human level - and that's never going to get lost.

At the roots, people are still people. That's why Shakespeare is so popular no matter what the language.

We should all be so lucky in our lives to create things that we're still talking about 25 years later.

It is the mark of great art that its appeal is universal and eternal.

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.

Considering the amount of information we're bombarded by, it's amazing if a song can transcend time.

It is only the modern that ever becomes old-fashioned.

All of the movies that last, that you return to, the movies that struck you as a kid and continue to open up to you 10 years later and 10 years after that - those are the movies I want to make. Those things are eternal.

Effortlessly, I feel like my records have longevity.

When you make music, and even if it's commercially successful, it doesn't mean that it's going to hold up. It takes time to sort of take stock of what you've done and whether it's got legs and whether it's going to really have a place.

We go out of fashion but can also come back into fashion. So you've just got to hang around long enough until you are back in style.

I never want to make the kind of film whose impact ends when the audience leaves the cinema.