Paul Weller Quotes

I want to write music that will outlive me.

I want to make music that stands the test of time.

Audiences aren't going to get rid of me. One thing I can say, with absolute certainty, is that my shows will still be performed when I'm dead, buried and forgotten. They're going to absolutely outlive me, which is a wonderful thing to think about.

When I'm dead, I wanna leave a body of work, like authors or great painters do.

I want to create a body of work that is entertaining and speaks to people for a long time. Longer than my life span.

Films and gramophone records, music, books and buildings show clearly how vigorously a man's life and work go on after his 'death,' whether we feel it or not, whether we are aware of the individual names or not. There is no such thing as death according to our view!

Art is longer than life.

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

If somebody wants to sing my songs after I'm gone, nobody will be happier than my dead body.

Whatever happens in my life from now on, I know the day I finally die - the final act of my script - people will always make references to the work I've done with Almodovar.

The painter leaves his mark. And I just put in two statues in Rhode Island that I'm working on. And I think that's going to make me last longer than me.

No man is truly great who is great only in his lifetime. The test of greatness is the page of history.

I am aware of the words 'national treasure' being attached to me occasionally. It just makes me feel old.

Our music will continue to have an impact in people's lives long after we finally call it quits.

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

When I'm dead, gone or whatever, people will always remember my name and the music I did during my time.

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

At some point of time, Imman won't be in this world. But my biggest asset would be if my biggest hater had at least 100 songs that I composed in his playlist. That's how I know my work will continue to live.

For now the poet cannot die, Nor leave his music as of old, But round him ere he scarce be cold Begins the scandal and the cry.

I think about all the people who have created something that lives after them - works of art, plays, music, films, literature, poetry that will be read, seen, performed, and heard for the rest of time. If I could do something that lives after me, then I think I will have had a life well led.

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.

The reward of great men is that, long after they have died, one is not quite sure that they are dead.

A great song is one that is around even when I'm not.

If you look at the history of music, you have classical composers, church music, pop music, etc. Music that's existed for centuries. I think there are some songs that are close to immortal. They will last longer than we will in this lifetime.