Dean Ween Quotes

I just want to make a classic. Classic is the standard. I'm just trying to make music that will last a lifetime.

As long as Elton John can bring forth one performance per album on the order of 'Someone Saved My Life Tonight,' the chance remains that he will become something more than the great entertainer he already is and go on to make a lasting contribution to rock.

Everything about Sinatra was good. He had the ability to pick great songs, and once Sinatra had sung them, that pretty much was it. He pretty much put his stamp on everything.

My next record I really just want it to be a collection of great songs, classic songs in a way.

The key to immortality is first living a life worth remembering.

I would love for people to look at me as a great singer but also know exactly who I am, the way that we have loved and respected people like Gladys Knight and Patti LaBelle, having gone through the different stages of their lives with them. That's the type of history I want to have.

I suppose that every one of us hopes secretly for immortality; to leave, I mean, a name behind him which will live forever in this world, whatever he may be doing, himself, in the next.

I think The Police made five great records and then called it a day. They went out on top.

I used to imagine that making it in music - really making it in music - is if you're an old man going by a schoolyard and you hear children singing your songs, playing jump-rope, or on the swings. That's the ultimate. You're in the culture.

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

I saw what Purple meant to people and I still hear it now when I'm in Europe. I'm always shocked that I'm still asked about Purple because it was such a long time ago.

Of all the possessions of this life fame is the noblest; when the body has sunk into the dust the great name still lives.

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

The Men at Work thing is always there, it's always going to be there. It's not something I consciously think that much about anymore. The thing that stays with you is the songs, which is a good thing for me, because the songs are the things that stand the test of time.

I think we're in a disposable world and 'Stairway to Heaven' is one of the things that hasn't quite been thrown away yet.

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

The singers who are the most honest are the ones who become immortalized.

'Frampton Comes Alive!' is the album I'll always be remembered for. I'm very proud of the music that's on it. Why it exploded the way it did and continues to live on are things that can't fully be explained.

I don't want to make music that is hot now; I want to make music that is hot forever.

When you do a good film, it will remain forever.

We told you Wu-Tang was forever, and some people forgot that. It's not some fad.

I've really been blessed to have these roles in movies that will last forever.

You can't really take it for granted that people listen to your music. I want to write songs that are on par, at least in my mind, with the ones I've loved for my whole life and that will be around forever.

'Astral Weeks' is a brilliant album, and songs like 'Moondance' are just beautiful lyrically.

What happens to you here is forever.