Scott Joplin Quotes

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

You hope people are going to be listening to you after you're gone. And they like you better after you're gone.

It's not whether you win or lose, it's how many people remember you when you die.

Age makes all things greater after their death; a name comes to the tongue easier from the grave.

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

I would just like to be remembered.

For children preserve the fame of a man after his death.

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

Every man of genius is considerably helped by being dead.

To be remembered at all is an achievement of sorts.

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

It's funny the way most people love the dead. Once you are dead, you are made for life.

I want to be so famous that drag queens will dress like me in parades when I'm dead.

Biography is one of the new terrors of death.

After I die, I'll be forgotten.

They only name things after you when you're dead or really old.

It's funny how most people love the dead, once you're dead, you're made for life.

I've had a wonderful life. What people are going to write about me 10 years after I'm dead - who cares?

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

I want people talking about me when I'm gone.

I always felt that one needs to be remembered long after one has gone.

I want to be remembered.

Men always want to be remembered whereas women realize that requires being dead.

I know not whether, in the eyes of the world, a brilliant death is not preferred to an obscure life of rectitude. Most men are remembered as they died, and not as they lived. We gaze with admiration upon the glories of the setting sun, yet scarcely bestow a passing glance upon its noonday splendor.

My work is known by too few people for me to be remembered as a writer - that is, beyond those dedicated souls (bless them) who have followed the oeuvre through its various stages. To be realistic, when they and the last of my friends have died, I doubt I shall be remembered at all.