John Ruskin Quotes

Let it endure forever

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 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.

I've been thinking about forever

When we build, let us think that we build for ever.

That's why I named my album 'Finding Forever,' because that's what I was thinking about: What did I want to contribute to this world that would live beyond my physical existence?

If what you create does not outlive you, then you have failed.

When a man says he is building a house for himself and his posterity, he does not mean to be understood as saying that he has any thought of binding them, nor is it to be inferred that he is so foolish as to imagine that he has any right or power to bind them, to live in it.

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.

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

My music will go on forever. Maybe it's a fool say that, but when me know facts me can say facts. My music will go on forever.

The game was here long before I was, and will be here long after I'm gone.

Fellow citizens, we cannot escape history. We, of this Congress and this administration, will be remembered in spite of ourselves. No personal significance, or insignificance, can spare one or another of us. The fiery trial through which we pass will light us down in honor or dishonor, to the latest generation.

History will treat me right.

Sun Tzu does not need my praise. His work has lived for over two thousand years, and will surely live for another two thousand without any help from me.

After I die, I'll be forgotten.

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.

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.

My work is not a piece of writing designed to meet the taste of an immediate public, but was done to last for ever.

Statesmen are judged by history beyond contemporary debates.

The leaders come and go, but the people remain. Only the people are immortal

There's a reason you can still read Thucydides, and it still makes sense to you thousands of years later.

The Hamilton name will live on way beyond me now, which I'm very happy to be a part of.

The thing with all the Founding Fathers, one of the most common words they used was 'posterity.' They were constantly referring to posterity.

The stuff that's good is the stuff that lives on.