Shooter Jennings Quotes

My mother said, Don't worry abot what people think now. Think about whether your children and grandchildren will think you've done well.

Our choices are going to determine the future for our children, our children's children, and their children. I take that responsibility very seriously.

I've got two children, and if my voice is still out there, I want the money to go to them when I die.

I used to think that my songs were the best things that I would leave behind me. And I definitely think my kids are now. For starters, they're writing better songs than I was at their age.

Did I really want to teach my children that a list of successes is the most valuable legacy to leave behind? I absolutely did not.

We all got older, and we'd tell our children things like, 'Mommy used to be in a famous rock band,' but they didn't believe us. Part of the reason for our reunion was to show our children what we did to make the lives they have possible.

A wife is man's conscience, his children perpetuate his memory, wealth enables him to live, arms are needed to extirpate the tyrants.

Children are poor men's riches.

Sons represent security, insurance, a 401(k), a bank.

I do want to be a mother. I like the idea of passing on what my mother passed on to me.

The wish to pass something on to your children is about the most basic, human and natural aspiration there is.

I want to leave something behind. A blueprint. A work ethic. Something that my great-grandkids and their kids and their kids can see: This is where it started. Lineage. Intergenerational wealth. Things that are here forever. All that.

You see your children growing. You look at your grandchildren, and you say to yourself, 'What if I weren't here? Have I done all I can to prepare them for their role in life?' You realize that you never quite do everything, but you want to do better than what you have done.

I want my kids, my grandkids to have a great life.

I'm very much into legacies.

If you had told me in 1968 that 20 years later I'd still be receiving wonderful royalty checks for those three years, I wouldn't have believed you.

When I think about my legacy, I think about the world that we leave behind for our children.

To the children of yesterday, who have grown up and become parents, and to the children of today, who perhaps shout 'Tottigol,' I'd like to think that, for you, my career has become a fairytale for you to pass on.

I think about the world that we leave behind for our children.

As songwriters, we are lucky to have ASCAP on our side, offering support and fighting for our rights.

Our children are Grammers and it's easier to keep the Grammer last name because of them.

When I'm done my mixed martial arts career, the only people who are gonna remember me and respect what I did and how I lived my life are my two children. That's my legacy, ladies and gentlemen.

I love the whole idea of family and what gets left behind when you are gone. I'm very proud of my children; I was one of seven.

I am a co-writer of 'Survivor,' so there's publishing that I'll receive for some of the records.

My oldest boy, when I do skip, he's gonna take over my slot. He was sitting on the stair in diapers wearing my mask with sticks while we were downstairs trying to learn how to be a band.