Watkin Tudor Jones Quotes

I just want to leave this world with a massive catalog of songs.

At some point in my life, before I was gone, I wanted to make an album, even if it was for no reason other than posterity.

That's the thing about music: It's forever. Hopefully, you captured a moment musically that has a timeless quality people will find relevant to their lives at any point. That's the whole idea about what I love about art and music.

I have all of these lives that I want the music to live, but at the end of the day, it's out there.

Years from now, after I'm gone, someone will listen to what I've done and know I was here. They may not know or care who I was, but they'll hear my guitars speaking for me.

When my time ends, I want people to say, 'Man her music made me smile; it just enlightened my life; it inspired me; it made me feel good every time.'

I would rather be remembered by a song than by a victory.

I just want to make music as long as I can and reach as many people as I can.

I'm continuing to learn more about music - it's an ocean, and you can never really say that you know everything. I'm grateful that I'm still living and making music among the greats.

I'm in this for the long haul. I've been making music my whole life.

When I'm dead, I want to be remembered as a musician of some worth and substance.

It was a really strange way that I came into music. Once I gave voice to it, the pit of emotions that I guess I knew was inside of me for a long time, the stream never really stopped.

I've been playing music since I was born.

'Let the music play on' would be my legacy.

Every band runs its course.

I want to make music until I die.

Let me create great music, go in the studio, and possibly become a memory and a time stamp in people's lives - and just give the best performances, because I know that's all that really matters.

I've spent my life playing music.

One of the biggest misconceptions was, after I left Dream Theater, I went off and did, like, five different bands and side projects. Everyone was like, 'We thought you wanted a break.' And it was like, well, I didn't want a break from making music; I just needed a break from the Dream Theater camp.

I spent my life's work doing what I did in Dream Theater for 25 years, so I'm proud of that.

Everyone has their own journey, and for me, going from singing background to writing songs has truly opened doors for me and has also helped me find myself as an artist in terms of what I want to say and the style of music I want to have.

Music's designed to be timeless.

We still have the love for music; it will forever be in my heart.

I recorded songs with a great deal of meaning, songs of lasting material. That's the legacy I want to leave behind - a legacy of love.

Growing up, I was always around adult musicians who played for their entire lives. So that's what I wanted to do, and I always had that in mind.