Paul Weller Quotes

When I'm dead, I wanna leave a body of work, like authors or great painters do. I don't wanna get ideas above my station, but why shouldn't this be comparable? Pop music was supposed to be a flash in the pan, but here we are 50 years later, and it means something to us, and it always will do. It's incredibly important.

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!

I've achieved what every artist wants, which is that some of their work will outlive them.

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

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

If I were to die thinking that I'd written three poems that people might read after me, I would feel that I hadn't lived in vain. Great poets might expect the whole body of their work, but most of us - well, I would settle for a handful.

When I'm dead twenty-five years, people are going to begin to recognize me.

I really want to leave something behind that means something when I'm no longer here.

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.

The great thing about a painter is that he or she lives on - I mean, Andrew Wyeth is more in his paintings than he was walking around.

What’s written remains, though a writer is buried beneath the ground.

When you look at my father's works, he systematically dated everything. He also wanted to document what he knew would be the work of the century.

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

For me, to have had an impact with anything that you've done, whether it's a painting, a photo, a poem, or something that you've created, just that experience is enormous. You don't get that all the time.

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.

Every man of genius is considerably helped by being dead.

I would like to live forever in people's hearts and minds; that would be fun. I'll leave the world my art.

I want to write music that will outlive me.

I want to go down in history.

I hope when I'm dead I'll be considered an icon, though.

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

I'm lucky. Usually you're dead to get your own museum, but I'm still alive to see mine.

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

Men's fame is like their hair, which grows after they are dead, and with just as little use to them.

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