Howie Dorough Quotes

Everyone is trying to make these huge songs; I just make things that I want to listen to. Music that I will be comfortable listening to 10 years from now, that's my only thing.

Pop changes week to week, month to month. But great music is like literature.

Effortlessly, I feel like my records have longevity.

I like to make songs that are gonna be here for a long time, not for five months that they play on the radio.

All the buzz can be very much here today and gone tomorrow, but my focus is creating music that will last forever.

Our band Stereophonics never wanted to release a couple records and be the biggest band in the world for 10 minutes. We always wanted to stand the test of time, and make great music that people would want to listen to and that music lasts. We'd looked up to artists and bands that had big back catalogues.

A song is only as strong as its foundation, and when it comes so naturally in any setting, those are the songs that will hopefully outlive you, maybe even outlive the next generation of You.

If our music survives, which I have no doubt it will, then it will because it is good.

My goal was always to be involved in music that would outlive me. And maybe that's actually happening.

For me, it's not about quick grabs and quick sales; it's about having a sound that will last and sustain.

It's a wonderful thing to be able to see your music going from generation to generation.

Maybe this is wrong, but I feel like I craft my songs carefully enough that I still find that fifteen years after having written one, it still works for me - I'm not cringing.

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

What I'm most pleased about is that there's no particular decline. The songs I wrote 40 years ago are no worse and no better - there's a consistency.

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

To have a body of work is a blessing - when you have songs that have been around generation after generation that they call timeless music, you can work that for a long time.

One thing with Backstreet Boys, we never try to rush out an album. We always try to make quality music that can stand the test of time.

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.

I want to create songs that will last across time.

I'm constantly trying to create timeless music that many people can gravitate to.

Music is fragile: people die, and it's forgotten.

The most important thing is to make quality music that will last.

I want to be somebody, a person, first that people remember, but also, I want music that I release to still be around. I don't want it to just be cool for a second and be gone.

You want to make a record that stands the test of time and that people enjoy.

I just put people on my records that I think bring something really unique to the song, and that's what's going to make it live over time. Not the fact that an artist might be 'hot' at the time.