Chris Thile Quotes

A human act once set in motion flows on forever to the great account. Our deathlessness is in what we do, not in what we are.

If your contribution has been vital there will always be somebody to pick up where you left off, and that will be your claim to immortality.

Death can never kill an idea. Ideas are more powerful than death. Ideas outlive men and can never be destroyed.

I'm honored that I'm in history, but I don't think it would mean anything if it doesn't change anything.

There's one form of immortality I like to think about. It's that all those who from the very first have given anything to the world are living in the world to-day.

You wanna be remembered for making an impact and changing things. I guess for the good or for the bad, it don't matter. But I guess you just wanna be remembered when it's all said and done.

You wanna be remembered for making an impact and changing things.And I guess for the good or for the bad, it don't matter. But I guess you just wanna be remembered when it's all said and done.

We all leave one another. We die, we change - it's mostly change - we outgrow our best friends; but even if I do leave you, I will have passed on to you something of myself; you will be a different person because of knowing me; it's inescapable.

The influence of each human being on others in this life is a kind of immortality.

The career of a great man remains an enduring monument of human energy. The man dies and disappears, but his thoughts and acts survive and leave an indelible stamp upon his race.

I want to change history, do something important in my life, and influence individuals like we have with millions of small businesses on Alibaba. Then they love and respect you because you made their life important.

I'm a catalyst for change. You can't be an outsider and be successful over 30 years without leaving a certain amount of scar tissue around the place.

I think an artist's true worth comes through an inter-generational thing - when you go beyond your own time, and start influencing people in a greater way than just what surrounds you.

I want to be able to say on my deathbed that I reached a few people. That would be very nice, just to be able to say that.

That's why I named my album 'Finding Forever,' because that's what I was thinking about: What did I want to contribute to this world that would live beyond my physical existence?

If what you create does not outlive you, then you have failed.

Men die but an idea does not.

I certainly hope 'Dragon' can leave some legacy behind.

If something comes to life in others because of you, then you have made an approach to immortality.

When you touch the life of a man of this generation, that influence is felt through generations yet to come.

Michael Jordan changed so much in basketball, he took his power to make a difference. It's so much going on in music right now and somebody has to make a difference.

He who influences the thought of his times, influences all the times that follow. He has made his impress on eternity.

Ideas do not count for much unless they change the lives of men.

Either you make history or you will be history.

… the whole earth is the sepulcher of famous men; and their story is not graven only on stone over their native earth, but lives on far away, without visible symbol, woven into the stuff of other men's lives.