D. B. Weiss Quotes

There is nothing more ancient than the truth.

And who cares, five years down the road, what most movies made or didn't make? If it's good, it stands up.

If something becomes old-fashioned, it was no good to start with. Think about it. Michelangelo is not old-fashioned.

Art is forever.

Some of the most famous books are the least worth reading. Their fame was due to their having done something that needed to be doing in their day. The work is done and the virtue of the book has expired.

Ask counsel of both timesof the ancient time what is best, and of the latter time what is fittest.

To be always relevant, you have to say things which are eternal.

The sage has one advantage: he is immortal. If this is not his century, many others will be.

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

To think I thought you could lose your place in history.

Sometimes, something special doesn't live forever. But it can always be forever as long as the fans keep it going.

Sometimes a famous subject may even outlive his own obituary writer.

Shakespeare wrote about what was happening during the time; it still relates to us now.

A legacy is a lot of times determined by how people accept your music. And sometimes people's legacy starts late or starts early, or they last a long time or a short amount of time. As a musician, I've never taken an approach of wanting to try to control that because I don't think that I can.

Words have a longevity that I do not have.

I'm glad I was part of history, here long after I'm gone.

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.

It would be amazing to write a song that could be sung 100 years from now by a teenage girl and still be relevant to her - that's a dream of songwriting, maybe.

It's an honor to sit back and see people loving the things that you did 25 years ago and still be here and be amongst the crowd to receive those blessings.

It's been two decades. I feel blessed that I'm still working, and people still want to see me.

I think about Shakespeare. Because there have been hundreds of variations of Shakespeare's plays since they've been written, and I believe it's because they're important. They're still relevant today. 'Roots' is still relevant today. The idea that we shouldn't tell this story again is very strange to me.

I want to be a part of films that will be watched even after twenty years.

'Hairspray' has never been irrelevant, which is, in some ways, heartbreaking.

Nothing is forever, but history is forever.

We're just not going anywhere. Our songs are here to stay.